Name	William Yeats
Age	144
Date of Birth	June 13, 1865
Star Sign	Gemini
Nationality	Irish
Occupation	Playwright
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Quotes

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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In dreams begins responsibility.

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

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The problem with some people is that when they aren`t drunk, they`re sober.

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The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity

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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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One should not lose one`s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

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And say my glory was I had such friends.

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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Trivia

He allegedly declined a British knighthood in 1915.

His name is mentioned in The Cranberries` song Yeat`s Grave from the No Need To Argue album

His surname is pronounced YATES.

Won the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Irish poet and playwright (26 plays).

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