It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSDo not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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