William Butler Yeats | poetry
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William Butler Yeats | men
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.
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William Butler Yeats | imagination
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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William Butler Yeats | history
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends’ portraits hang and look thereon Ireland’s history in their lineaments trace think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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William Butler Yeats | happiness
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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William Butler Yeats | great
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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