Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Quote by William Butler Yeats

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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.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it...

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it...

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

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

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may...

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may...

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the...

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the...

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire,...

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire,...

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless...

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless...

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,...

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We...

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We...

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...

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand...

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand...

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your...

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your...

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...

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.