It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAn intellectual hate is the worst.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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