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Before Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.
- The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are…
- Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as…
- Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade...
- 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…
- Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger…
- ...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...
- If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after…
- An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do…
- One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my…
- Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all…
- It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
- 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…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood