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.
William Butler Yeats
Related A man is at his best when he is simply not like the rest in all his life's test ANUJ SOMANY A man is at his best when he is simply not like rest in all his life's test ANUJ SOMANY Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring,
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A man enrich his community. A man teach and display leadership qualities for his children. A man by ... CARLOS WALLACE It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- ... HELEN ROWLAND Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - ... HELEN ROWLAND Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - a... HELEN ROWLAND The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried. BUD WILKINSON When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats... HOWARD NEMEROV It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give... DAVID GOWER Sounis had been thinking of Ambiades. 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He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule... THURGOOD MARSHALL Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he pro... B. F. HARRIS Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr... B. F. HARRIS Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that "he pr... CHARLES H. SPURGEON No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. SALLUST A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his ... MARCUS AURELIUS If a man has done his best, what else is there? GENERAL GEORGE PATTON If a man has done his best, what else is there? GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not wha... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not wha... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Every man of courage is a man of his word. PIERRE CORNEILLE The best present a man can give a woman is his undivided attention. USHER A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad,
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Farewell -- farewell,For I am weary of the weight of time. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must s... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely ... 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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mo... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gif... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS That William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the moun... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opini... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, La... WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square,
Has made three separate journeys to Paris,
And her fat... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,
When at the same moment she had on a dress
Whi... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the ... WILLIAM FRANCIS BUTLER Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,When at the same moment she had on a dressWhich cost ... WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Really and truly -- I've nothing to wear. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER