"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
-William Butler Yeats
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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
-William Butler Yeats
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"But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
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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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"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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