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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

William Butler Yeats · Education

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William Butler Yeats

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.

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William Butler Yeats

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.

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William Butler Yeats

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

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William Butler Yeats

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

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