The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTeaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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