Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSFrom our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Myself I must remake.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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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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