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Introduction The Celtic Twilight William Butler Yeats
"Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?"
about courage
"What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?"
about age
"From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash."
"Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm."
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant
"It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service."
about conversation, education, gentlement
"Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him."
"The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think."
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."
about fact
"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong."
"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."