William Butler Yeats

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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men

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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poetry

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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romantic

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

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time

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

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

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truth

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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truth

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.

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truth

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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wisdom

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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wisdom

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