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Fighting Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.
- Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
- 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…
- I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard…
- Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that…
- 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…
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