People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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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!
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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