Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
That is no country for old men.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, and loved the sorrows of your changing face.
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye; that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Come away, O human child, to the waters and the wild, with a faery, hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book.
All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.