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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

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How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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

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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

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

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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: June 13th, 1865

Died: January 28th, 1939

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