Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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