William Butler Yeats Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
William Butler Yeats quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased poet born on Jun 13, 1865). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 68 we have for him.
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
“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.”
“Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.”
“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
“Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
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