Author: William Butler Yeats

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

- William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

- William Butler Yeats

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

- William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

- William Butler Yeats

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

- William Butler Yeats

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

- William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

- William Butler Yeats

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

- William Butler Yeats

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

- William Butler Yeats

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