The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEvery 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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