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Say Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
- 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…
- 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…
- Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me…
- Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever…
- Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
- I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
- 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…
- You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God.…
- How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that…
- Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That…
- 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…
- And say my glory was I had such friends.
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