Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHammer your thoughts into unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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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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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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