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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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All 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.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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