Though leaves are many, the root is one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSChoose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Myself I must remake.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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