Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSNeither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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