The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLife is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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