An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Quote by William Butler Yeats

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

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...

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...

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.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...

May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may...

May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may...

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.

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...

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...

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

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...

And say my glory was I had such friends.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout...

But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout...

There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for...

There, right in the midst of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for...