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Thursday, 24 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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All that glitters is not gold.
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Browse Quotations by Yeats, William Butler

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
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.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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 carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.


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