The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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 worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Myself I must remake.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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