God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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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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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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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Myself I must remake.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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