1,059 Quotes by 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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which...
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Education is not filling.
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The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards.
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A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.
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I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent.
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Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that’s a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.
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