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William Butler Yeats


Irish
June 13, 1865
Poet
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And say my glory was I had such friends.


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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.


William Butler Yeats
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.


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


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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.


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Tags: Love Those Hate
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.


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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.


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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.


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


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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
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Tags: You More Than
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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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.
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