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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSA statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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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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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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