All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSDo not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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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.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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