I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Quote by William Butler Yeats
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
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Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?