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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.
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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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