#no

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

#deep #down #dream #eyes #fire

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

#comes #die #eye #grow #know

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#enemy #innocent #time

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

#comfort #desire #destroyed #drink #i

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#because #difficult #exult #known #most

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

#bad #bad man #believe #believed #best

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#beautiful #born #know #labor #must

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#knows #labours #obstacles #overcomes #triumph

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#embody #know #man #truth