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.

Quote by William Butler Yeats

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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of...

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of...

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those...

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those...

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not...

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not...

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of...

We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of...

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age;...

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age;...

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all...

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all...

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there...

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there...

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them...

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them...

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all...

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all...

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from...

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from...

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are...

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are...

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you...

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you...

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other...

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other...

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies

Why was I so blind that I couldn't see our love was changing underneath our...

Why was I so blind that I couldn't see our love was changing underneath our...

Close friends > crush > relationship > true love

Close friends > crush > relationship > true love