"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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"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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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
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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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"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
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"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"
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"Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
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