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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere is another world, but it is in this one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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