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William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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 every tatter in its mortal dress.
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.
Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.
Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.
I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Why should we honor those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
If the rose puzzled its mind over the question of how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
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