Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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