One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAny 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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