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 YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Hammer your thoughts into 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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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