William Butler Yeats
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.