The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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