"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
-William Butler Yeats
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"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
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"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
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