Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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