Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in…

Quote by William Butler Yeats

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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and...

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and...

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of...

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of...

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth, That long to give themselves for wage,...

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth, That long to give themselves for wage,...

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the...

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the...

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...

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be...

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be...

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's...

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's...

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

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.

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

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

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and...

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and...

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to...

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to...

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...

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

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...

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon...

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon...

The kind of people a person gets in his or her network is only the...

The kind of people a person gets in his or her network is only the...