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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler Yeats

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Meaning Poetry Right Word
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Brief Joy Knowledge Time Tragedy
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Earth Existence Feet Ourselves True
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Battle Character Dreams Fight Fools Inspirational Life Lose Myself Need Night Party Soul Win
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Gold Silver Sun Time
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Death Life Preparation Spiritual
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Nature Rose Sweet Time World Yourself
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Education Fire Lightning
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Conquer Endurance Energy Moral Noble Representation Right Spirit Strong Temptation Trial
There is another world, but it is in this one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Hide Perspective World
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Fire Light Teaching
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Heart Rose Time
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
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!
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Angel Dance Flame Mountain Ride World Yourself

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