Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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