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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
  -- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming...
• Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. -- William Butler Yea
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -- William Butler Yea
• The man who understands one woman is qualified to understand pretty well everything.
  -- William Butler Yea...
• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
  -- William Butler Yea...
• Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
  -- William Butler Yea...
• Many times man lives and dies Between his two eternities.
  -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) "Under Ben Bulben" (1936-1939)...
• Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
  -- William Butler Yeats, "The Stolen Child...
• I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
  -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) Attributed...