Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSA statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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