One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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

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Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors

WHAT they undertook to do
They brought to pass;
All things hang like a drop of dew
Upon a blade of grass.

poem by William Butler Yeats
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

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Spilt Milk

WE that have done and thought,
That have thought and done,
Must ramble, and thin out
Like milk spilt on a stone.

poem by William Butler Yeats
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The Balloon Of The Mind

HANDS, do what you're bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.

poem by William Butler Yeats
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Parnell

PARNELL came down the road, he said to a cheering man:
'Ireland shall get her freedom and you still break stone.'

poem by William Butler Yeats
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