"Only that which does not teach, which does……" — William Butler Yeats
"Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible."
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William Butler Yeats
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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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More Condescend Quotes
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The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.
— Unknown Author
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Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms;…
— Samuel Johnson
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If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul,…
— Laurence Sterne
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Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your…
— Jonathan Swift
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I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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We make a mistake to condescend to the past as if it were preparatory to our own time.
— E L Doctorow
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The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely…
— George Steiner
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Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew…
— Maureen Dowd
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