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I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown. — W.B.Yeats

They shall be remembered forever,
They shall be alive forever,
They shall be speaking forever,
The people shall hear them forever. — W.B.Yeats

Nor are there singing schools but studying monuments of its own magnificence. — W.B.Yeats

Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it. — W.B.Yeats

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer. — B.W. Powe

There may often be excuse for doing things poorly in this world, but there is never any excuse for calling a poorly done thing, well done. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Children learn more from what you are than what you teach. — W.E.B. Du Bois

And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died? — W.B.Yeats

From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self. — W.B.Yeats

It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars! — W.E.B. Du Bois

[On The Hunger Games success]: It hit on the zeitgeist of the disparity b/w the haves and have nots. — Nina Jacobson

I am persuaded that our intellects at twenty contain all the truths we shall ever find — W.B.Yeats

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world. — W. E. B. Griffin

Love comes in at the eye. — W.B.Yeats

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream. — W.B.Yeats

To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart — W.B.Yeats

In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. — W.B.Yeats

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high. — W.B.Yeats

God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone. — W.B.Yeats

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. — W.B.Yeats

Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh. — W.B.Yeats

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings. — W.B.Yeats

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses. — W.B.Yeats

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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

The dark world is going to submit to its present treatment just as long as it must and not one moment longer. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Liberty trains for liberty. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory. — B.W. Powe

And softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone. — W.B.Yeats

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Education and work are the levers to uplift a people. — W.E.B. Du Bois

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world. — W.E.B. Du Bois

There must be engagement: there must be protest. — B.W. Powe

Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold... — W.B.Yeats

If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort? — W.E.B. Du Bois

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp. — W. E. B. Griffin

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera. — W.E.B. Du Bois

There is another world, but it is in this one. — W.B.Yeats

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue. — B.W. Powe

I hear water lapping with low sound by the shore ... I hear it in the deep heart's core. — W.B.Yeats

I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes. — B.W. Powe

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger. — W. E. B. Griffin

S. P. T. to A. P. W. B. D. Dark — J.K. Rowling

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology. — Aaron Levie

You can't fix stupid, — W. E. B. Griffin

if one writes one can do nothing else. — W.B.Yeats

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. — W.B.Yeats

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights. — W.E.B. Du Bois

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 — W.B.Yeats

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect — W.E.B. Du Bois

Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise. — W.B.Yeats

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart. — W.B.Yeats

The world still wants to ask that a woman primarily be pretty and if she is not, the mob pouts and asks querulously, 'What else are women for? — W.E.B. Du Bois

My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if I might love. — W.B.Yeats

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing. — W.B.Yeats

We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh. — W.B.Yeats

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C. — W.C. Fields

We have come to a generation which seeks advance without ideals - discovery without stars. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — W.B.Yeats

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. — W.E.B. Du Bois

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is — W.B.Yeats

I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood
sex and the dead. — W.B.Yeats

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. — W.B.Yeats

Where there is nothing, there is God. — W.B.Yeats

All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born. — W.B.Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — W.B.Yeats

Why should the faithfullest heart most love The bitter sweetness of false faces? — W.B.Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats — Daniel Coyle

....tradition gives the one thing many shapes. — W.B.Yeats

All things change, save only the fear of change. — W.B.Yeats

I had a happy childhood and acceptance in the community. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Never leave the door open at this hour, or evil may come to you. — W.B.Yeats

We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love — W.B.Yeats

There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet. — W.B.Yeats

I was born free. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed
The Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone. — W.B.Yeats

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it. — B.W. Powe

But what of black women? ... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Ignorance is a cure for nothing. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned. — W.B.Yeats

An author's characters do what he wants them to do. — W. E. B. Griffin

Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge. — W.B.Yeats

better doubtless to believe much unreason and a little truth than to deny for denial's sake truth and unreason alike, — W.B.Yeats

As Negro voting increased, Congress got an improved sense of hearing. — W.E.B. Du Bois

the cloak of Sorrow: O — W.B.Yeats

When Uncle W. G. held out his hand to take my money, I dropped the dead mouse in his hand. — Earl B. Russell

Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death, — W.B.Yeats

Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. — W.E.B. Du Bois

What hurts the soul
My soul adores — W.B.Yeats

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. — W.B.Yeats

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born? — W.B.Yeats

I carry the Sun in a Golden Cup, the Moon in a Silver Bag. — W.B.Yeats