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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Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time.William Butler Yeats
And say my glory was I had such friends.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
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