William Butler Yeats Quotes, Men Quotes, Hands Quotes

Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

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In an honest man there is always something of a child.

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause.

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If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

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Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save.

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When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

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And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.

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Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

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Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.

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And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

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Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.

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Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence.

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The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

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Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?

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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

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Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

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