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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?
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I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.
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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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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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