Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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William Butler Yeats
We make out the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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William Butler Yeats
We were the last romantics - chose for theme / Traditional sanctity and loveliness.
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William Butler Yeats
We who are old, old and gray.
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William Butler Yeats
When shall the stars be blown about the sky, / Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?
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William Butler Yeats
When you are old and gray and full of sleep / And nodding by the fire, take down this book, / And slowly read . . . / How many loved your moments of glad grace, / And loved your beauty with love false or true; / But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, / And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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William Butler Yeats
When you are old and grey 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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Andrew Young
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
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Edward Young
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours; And ask them what report they bore to heaven: And how they might have borne more welcome news.
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Edward Young
'Tis impious in a good man to be sad.
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Edward Young
[The senses] Take in at once the landscape of the world, At a small inlet, which a grain might close, And half create the wondrous world they see.
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Edward Young
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
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Edward Young
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
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Edward Young
All may do what has by man been done.
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Edward Young
All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
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Edward Young
At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same.
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Edward Young
Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.
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Edward Young
Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
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Edward Young
But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.
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Edward Young
By night an atheist half believes a God.
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Edward Young
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause.