27 quotes by William Butler Yeats

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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Chance

4.7 · 24 votes

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Life

5.0 · 31 votes

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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

Wit

4.4 · 22 votes

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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

Pride

121 reads

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Absence

3.6 · 62 votes · 151 reads

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Feelings
Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected - for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?
3.1 · 11 votes · 112 reads
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Thought and Reason
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
4.2 · 49 votes · 56 reads
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Various
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
4.4 · 10 votes · 87 reads
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Various
Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
4.5 · 40 votes · 168 reads
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Countries
God made the country and man made the town.
4.1 · 5 votes · 117 reads
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Various
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
3.2 · 23 votes · 3 reads
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Virtues
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
3.6 · 57 votes · 63 reads
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Virtues
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows
4.9 · 37 votes · 147 reads
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Defects
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
4.3 · 10 votes · 128 reads
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Feelings
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
5.0 · 29 votes · 53 reads
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Feelings
No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
3.6 · 7 votes · 102 reads
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Various
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
3.0 · 20 votes · 0 reads
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Art and Culture
Once more I would adopt the graver style - a teacher should be sparing of his smile.
4.3 · 32 votes · 45 reads
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Society
Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!
3.4 · 38 votes · 115 reads
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Society
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
3.6 · 54 votes · 169 reads
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Feelings
The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away.
3.5 · 64 votes · 163 reads
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Thought and Reason
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
3.2 · 24 votes · 31 reads
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Defects
The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
4.6 · 49 votes · 67 reads
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Feelings
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.
4.1 · 13 votes · 142 reads
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Society
The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
5.0 · 38 votes · 187 reads
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Feelings
The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.
3.4 · 34 votes · 171 reads
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Various
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
4.7 · 8 votes · 7 reads
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