Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.

William Butler Yeats

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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

William Butler Yeats

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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

William Butler Yeats

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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

William Butler Yeats

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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

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There is another world, but it is in this one.

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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

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When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey 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; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

William Butler Yeats

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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

William Butler Yeats

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

William Butler Yeats

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

William Butler Yeats

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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

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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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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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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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

William Butler Yeats

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