The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLove 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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 love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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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.
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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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