Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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