Tag: William Butler Yeats
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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
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.
William Butler Yeats
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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.
William Butler Yeats
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler Yeats
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood – sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats
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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats