The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSSometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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