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to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

William Butler Yeats
Hate, Evil, May
William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

William Butler Yeats
Men, Evil, Imagination
"The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies".

For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

William Butler Yeats
Sea, Evil, Spy
William Butler Yeats, Colton Johnson (2000). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Articles and Reviews: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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