"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears."
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Source: William Butler Yeats (1997). “Easter, 1916 and Other Poems”, p.9, Courier Corporation
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