William Butler Yeats Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Men Quotes

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

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What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

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I think I stand where that man stands.

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It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

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No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

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In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not that he was great. It took a century or two for that fact to appear. What he did, he did, he did because he must; it was the most natural thing in the world, and grew out of the circumstances of the moment.

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He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

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Never utter the truism but live it among men.

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Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.

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A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

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The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

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. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

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H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

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To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

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It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

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