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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.

Bayard Taylor

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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Home Mountain Perfect
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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Excellence Hard Perseverance Work
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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Ashes Death Green
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Afar Emotion Soil
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Higher Perfect Song
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Art Desire Success
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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Cities Foundation World
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love

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