Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Myself I must remake.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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