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" I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. "
William Butler Yeats
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" Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. "
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" We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. "
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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. "
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" There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. "
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" Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. "
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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. "
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" Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. "
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" The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. "
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" 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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" 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 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. "
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" 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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Sing
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" This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. "
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" I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. "
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