QUOTES by William Butler Yeats
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When you're at home for Duke-Carolina, you have a crowd of close to 10,000 around you, loving you. That's awesome. But it's also a lot of fun in Chapel Hill, where it's you, your teammates and your coaches, and no one else. I enjoyed the games at Chapel Hill a little more because of that.
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My second choice would've been Carolina. And when I told my mother I was going to Duke and not Carolina, she just cried, and that made my decision process a little harder. But I still went with what felt right, and it ended up working out well for me.
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"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
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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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"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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"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
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"Think where mans 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."
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"I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age."
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"Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again."
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"You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?"
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"If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made."
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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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"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."
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"I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
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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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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."
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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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"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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"Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I drink my fill."
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"Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues."
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"No expectation fails there,No pleasing habit ends,No man grows old, no girl grows cold,But friends walk by friends."
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"I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots"
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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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"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera."
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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
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"Because of that great nobleness of hersThe fire that stirs about her, when she stirs,Burns but more clearly."
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"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep."
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"Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought."
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
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"The things that have been told us in our childhoodAre not so fragile."
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"One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass cannot keep the form where the mountain hare has lain."
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