Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSJoy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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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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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Myself I must remake.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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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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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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