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William Butler Yeats -
“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”2.
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“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”3.
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“Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”4.
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“I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.”5.
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“Wine come 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.”6.
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“O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?”7.
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“In dreams begins responsibility.”8.
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“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”9.
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“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”10.
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“In dreams begin responsibility.”11.
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“A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love.”12.
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“An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.”13.
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“I heard the old, old men say 'All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters.'”14.
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“Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”15.
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“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on n dreams.”16.
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”17.
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“An intellectual hate is the worst.”18.
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“I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”19.
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“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”20.
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“Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.”21.
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“Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”22.
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“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.”23.
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“Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.”24.
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“O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.”25.
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“Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”
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