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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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 believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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