Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Myself I must remake.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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