We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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