William Butler Yeats
"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
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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."
"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead."
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."