Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
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When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest.William Butler Yeats
If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.
William Butler Yeats
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.
William Butler Yeats
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
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
Where got I that truth Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh
William Butler Yeats
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