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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

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#heart #hid #love #pity #telling

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

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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

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dead #i #i am #interest #least

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

— William Butler Yeats

#knows #labours #obstacles #overcomes #triumph

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#everything #happy #inside #outside #something

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#others #ourselves #out #poetry #quarrel