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Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.
William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
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Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
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The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.
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I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no moreSoon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!
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If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
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How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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We are fastened to a dying animal.
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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.
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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.
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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.
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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
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