What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into 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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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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