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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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