Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old William Butler Yeats quotes, William Butler Yeats sayings, and William Butler Yeats proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
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
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.William Butler Yeats
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?William Butler Yeats
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The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.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 problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.William Butler Yeats
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.William Butler Yeats
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.William Butler Yeats
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The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.William Butler Yeats
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.William Butler Yeats
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.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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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.William Butler Yeats
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.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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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.William Butler Yeats
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Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.William Butler Yeats
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.William Butler Yeats
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.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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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.William Butler Yeats
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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
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.William Butler Yeats
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.William Butler Yeats
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.William Butler Yeats
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.William Butler Yeats
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The fascination of what's difficult has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of my heart.William Butler Yeats