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Best Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of…
- We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the…
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
- People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
- Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
- I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best,…
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon…
- The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any…
- Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence…
- Through winter-time we callon spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all; And after…
- ... But a coarse old man am I, I choose the second-best, I forget it all awhile Upon a woman's breast. Day-break and a candle…
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- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
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