William Butler Yeats on gift
William Butler Yeats89 quotes“Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.”
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything in nature is resurrection.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Forgiveness is not the fruit of our own efforts but rather a gift, it is a gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Joel OsteenJoel Osteen Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered.
John LennonJohn Lennon I love launching products near the holidays because it’s always so hard to figure out what to get special people in your life.
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Les BrownLes Brown The right to vote is the gift of democracy. Let us all go out and vote.
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