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1.
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Learning is not the filling of a pail, but the igniting of a flame.
2.
There are no strangers here;
Only friends you haven't yet met.
William Butler Yeats

3.
There is another world,
but it is in this one.
William Butler Yeats

4.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot;
but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats

5.
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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6.
The best lack all conviction,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats

7.
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

8.
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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9.
By logic and reason we die hourly;
by imagination we live.
William Butler Yeats

10.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats

11.
Being Irish,
he had an abiding sense of tragedy,
which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

12.
What man does not understand,
he fears;
and what he fears,
he tends to destroy.
William Butler Yeats

13.
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
William Butler Yeats

14.
Choose your companions from the best;
Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats

15.
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

16.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

17.
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

18.
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase;
as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before,
only higher up;
as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are.
The journey is both repetitious and progressive;
we go both round and upward.
William Butler Yeats

19.
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
William Butler Yeats

20.
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
William Butler Yeats

21.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth,
We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats

22.
I call on those that call me son,
Grandson,
or great-grandson,
On uncles,
aunts,
great-uncles or great-aunts,
To judge what I have done.
Have I,
that put it into words,
Spoilt what old loins have sent?
William Butler Yeats

23.
We taste and feel and see the truth.
We do not reason ourselves into it.
William Butler Yeats

24.
Cast a cold eye on life,
on death Horseman pass by
William Butler Yeats

25.
All things uncomely and broken,
all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway,
the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the plowman,
splashing the wintry mold,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
William Butler Yeats

26.
Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold.
William Butler Yeats

27.
From our birthday,
until we die,
Is but the winking of an eye.
William Butler Yeats

28.
Joy is of the will which labours,
which overcomes obstacles,
which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats

29.
Take,
if you must,
this little bag of dreams,
Unloose the cord,
and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats

30.
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

31.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
William Butler Yeats

32.
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler Yeats

33.
Wine enters through the mouth,
Love,
the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.
William Butler Yeats

34.
It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
William Butler Yeats

35.
I have believed the best of every man.
And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best,
or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats

36.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats

37.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart;
the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,
and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction,
while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats

38.
If what I say resonates with you,
it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
William Butler Yeats

39.
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above;
those that I fight I do not hate,
those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats

40.
The light of lights looks always on the motive,
not the deed,
the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats

41.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
William Butler Yeats

42.
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet,
but there is no quiet in my heart.
William Butler Yeats

43.
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
William Butler Yeats

44.
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
William Butler Yeats

45.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats

46.
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons,
with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.
William Butler Yeats

47.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats

48.
Everything in nature is resurrection.
William Butler Yeats

49.
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.
William Butler Yeats

50.
When you are old and gray 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.
William Butler Yeats