I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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