God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTake, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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