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Irish prose Writer, Dramatist and Poet. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. 1865-1939

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Speak, speak, for underneath the cover there
The sand is running from the upper glass,
And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,
Laughed; and plunging down
Forgot in cruel happiness
That even lovers drown.”
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I hear the wind a blow
I hear the grass a grow,
And all that I know, I know.
But I will not speak, I will run away.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The hour of the waning of love has beset us,
And weary and worn are our sad souls now;
Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,
With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.”

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