What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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