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Man Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
- The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted…
- That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.
- Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
- Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
- I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
- Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
- And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
- The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
- Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall…
- Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
- I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
- The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!
- A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
- Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade...
- Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
- You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look…
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss…
- Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
- 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,…
- An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for…
- 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…
- ...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in…
- When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
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- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle