"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
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Source: Under Ben Bulben l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.
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