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" But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? "
William Butler Yeats
Ever
Praised
His
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" An intellectual hatred is the worst. "
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" You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends. "
William Butler Yeats
Book
Alone
History
" The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. "
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Head
Heart
Bow
" 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. "
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Truth
Love
Know
" An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. "
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Soul
Stick
Sing
" All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. "
William Butler Yeats
Toward
Souls
Opinions
" Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. "
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Truth
Embody
Man
" How can we know the dancer from the dance? "
William Butler Yeats
How
Dance
Dancer
" 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
Good Man
Bad
Believe
" The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. "
William Butler Yeats
Lights
Shadows
Shadow
" And say my glory was I had such friends. "
William Butler Yeats
Say
Had
Friends
" Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. "
William Butler Yeats
Days
Your
Still
" Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. "
William Butler Yeats
Wise
Think
People
" The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. "
William Butler Yeats
Time
Innocent
Enemy
" In dreams begins responsibility. "
William Butler Yeats
Begins
Responsibility
Dreams
" But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. "
William Butler Yeats
Dreams
Feet
Because
" 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
Pride
Wisdom
Thought
" Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. "
William Butler Yeats
Light
Who
Away
" Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. "
William Butler Yeats
Top
Growing
Growing Up
" Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. "
William Butler Yeats
Fight
Guard
Hate
" 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
Drink
Wife
Comfort
" We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. "
William Butler Yeats
Outside
Inside
Us
" 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
Mood
I Am
Dead
" Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. "
William Butler Yeats
Most
Because
Difficult
" Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. "
William Butler Yeats
Hatred
Us
Heart
" If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. "
William Butler Yeats
Wise
Less
Suffering
" Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. "
William Butler Yeats
Will
Bag
Take
" The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. "
William Butler Yeats
Great
World
I Am
" Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. "
William Butler Yeats
Design
Silent
Taste
" A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. "
William Butler Yeats
Hid
Beyond
Pity