“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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“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”
— William Butler Yeats
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“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
— William Butler Yeats
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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
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“To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful.”
— William Butler Yeats
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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 my dreams.”
— William Butler Yeats
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“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
— William Butler Yeats
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
— William Butler Yeats
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“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
— William Butler Yeats
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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
— William Butler Yeats
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“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
— William Butler Yeats
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