All William Butler Yeats Quotes
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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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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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 Yeats
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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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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
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