It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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