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Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
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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Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .
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When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.
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I have often had the fancy that there is some one Myth for every man, which, if we but knew it, would make us understand all he did and thought.
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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.
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Between extremities Man runs his course A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night.
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