Our Friends Yeats Quotes
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
~ Yeats Quote
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
~ Yeats Quote
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood sex and the dead.
~ Yeats Quote
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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.
~ Yeats Quote
Style, personality deliberately adopted and therefore a mask is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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A Deep-sworn vow Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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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.
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