All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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