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Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
- I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
- I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
- I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
- I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
- I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
- If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
- In dreams begins responsibility.
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