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“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive
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“Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Buckets #Hills #Companion
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“There is another world, but it is in this one.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Life #World #Chaos
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“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Dream #Littles #Bags
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“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Inspirational #Wise #Teamwork
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Inspirational #Graduation #Education
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“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Inspirational #Life #Friendship
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“I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Men #Fancy #Myth
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“One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Love #Men #Soul
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Passionate #Conviction #Parliament
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“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Joy #Overcoming #Triumph
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“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Men #Poetry #Visionaries
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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
#Temptation #Soul #Positive Energy
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“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Men #History #Finding Yourself
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“By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Imagination #Logic #Reason
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“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Taste #Reason #Feels
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“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Wise #Wisdom #Suffering
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“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Wedding #Stars #Memories
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“An intellectual hatred is the worst.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Hatred #Intellectual #Social Justice
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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Poetry #Argument #Quarrels
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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
#Believe #Men #Swings
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“What can be explained is not poetry.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Life #Poetry
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“That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Beautiful #Sweet #School
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“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Lasts #Beast #Hours
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“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Dream #Oxford #Doe
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“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Food #Drinking #Men
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“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Anger #Getting High #Certain
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“In dreams begins responsibility.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Inspirational #Life #Dream
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“Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Guests #Tongue #World
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“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”
-- William Butler Yeats
#Love #Eye #Wine
