William Butler Yeats Quotes
Some moralist or mythological poet
Compares the solitary soul to a swan;
I am satisfied with that,
Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it,
Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.
William Butler Yeats
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Michael Badnarik
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Eric Weiner
I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.
Ted Danson
The Guardian,is one of the most consistently anti-Catholic newspapers in the world.
George Weigel
I'm working my way steadily back and I'm feeling good.
Lee Westwood
Some moralist or mythological poet
Compares the solitary soul to a swan;
I am satisfied with that,
Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it,
Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.
William Butler Yeats