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A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.
Topic: Absence
Source: None
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
Topic: Anger
Source: None
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Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
Topic: Art
Source: None
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In dreams begins responsibility.
Topic: Dreams
Source: None
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Topic: Imagination
Source: None
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We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of
Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the
people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature
of this country. We have created the best of its political
intelligence.
Topic: Ireland
Source: in a speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
Topic: Opinion
Source: None
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The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
Topic: Perfection
Source: None
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Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
Topic: Poetry
Source: None
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Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
Topic: Rhetoric
Source: None
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
Topic: Sacrifice
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Study
Source: The Letters of W .B. Yeats
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