William Butler Yeats Quotes, Hands Quotes, Land Quotes

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

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This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, . . . This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Kings Quotes , Land Quotes

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Land Quotes

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

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When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.

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The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Heart Quotes , Land Quotes

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Home Quotes , Land Quotes

The way you really stop Al-Qaeda is by stopping their funding. It's not by carpet-bombing or land invasions or anything.

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Tags : Adam McKay Quotes , Land Quotes , Stopping Quotes

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hunting Quotes , Land Quotes

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Land Quotes , Support Quotes

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Land Quotes

Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Land Quotes , Eugenics Quotes

Where Napoleon failed, I shall succeed, I shall land on the shores of Britain.

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Mild is the slow necessity of death; The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp, Without a groan, almost without a fear, Resigned in peace to the necessity; Calm as a voyager to some distant land, And full of wonder, full of hope as he.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Death Quotes , Land Quotes

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Mother Quotes , Land Quotes

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Second Chance Quotes , Land Quotes

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

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