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Thought Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
- A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
- 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…
- And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
- For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers,…
- Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind,…
- O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
- John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from…
- Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
- A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught...…
- A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living,…
- 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…
- ...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…
- As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
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