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Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.
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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Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
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What man does not understand, he fears and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?
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We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
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