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William Butler Yeats

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."

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"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught."

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"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

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"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything."

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"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

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