A 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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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