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May Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to…
- We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with.…
- Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun…
- 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.
- So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers…
- Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.
- Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
- 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…
- Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
- Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living,…
- A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until…
- ...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and…
- We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and…
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- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong