Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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