"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"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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Source: Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) Coole Park and Ballylee, 1932
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