William Butler Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. ↗

— 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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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

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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ↗

— 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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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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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

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In dreams begins responsibility. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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