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William Butler Yeats Quotes and Quotations
 Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. - William Butler Yeats | Character and Personality Quotes  The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. - William Butler Yeats | Conviction and Belief Quotes The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. - William Butler Yeats | Drink, Drinking and Drinkers Quotes Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats | Education Quotes Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. - William Butler Yeats | Goodness and Giving Quotes The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work. - William Butler Yeats | Intellect Quotes Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. - William Butler Yeats | Life Quotes 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 | Love Quotes Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible. - William Butler Yeats | Morality and Ethics Quotes All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. - William Butler Yeats | Opinion Quotes Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. - William Butler Yeats | Poets and Poetry Quotes A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote. - William Butler Yeats | Politics Quotes Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. - William Butler Yeats | Secrets and Secrecy Quotes Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. - William Butler Yeats | Happiness Quotes Florence Farr once said to me, "If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God." - William Butler Yeats | This Moment Quotes People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. - William Butler Yeats | Instincts Quotes No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love. - William Butler Yeats | Family Quotes Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. - William Butler Yeats | Lighten up Quotes She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. - William Butler Yeats | Youth Quotes 
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