Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire.
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You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song.William Butler Yeats
Hands, do what you're bid Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
William Butler Yeats
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.
William Butler Yeats
In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
William Butler Yeats
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
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
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