Tag: William Butler Yeats
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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
William Butler Yeats
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler Yeats
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
William Butler Yeats
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler Yeats
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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace; think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
William Butler Yeats
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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.
William Butler Yeats
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats