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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1659 |
| AUTHOR: | W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) |
| QUOTATION: | Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, “Easter 1916,” lines 57–59, The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats, ed. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, p. 394 (1957). |
| SUBJECTS: | Sacrifice |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
| WORKS: | William Butler Yeats Collection |
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