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Quotation by William Butler Yeats
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As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind....
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. "II. Ribh Denounces Patrick."
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