Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.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.
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No man has ever lived that had enough Of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans.
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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Hands, do what you're bid Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed.
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