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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy.
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We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.
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And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
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Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.
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