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Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

Bayard Taylor

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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Ascent Olives
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Childhood Desire Long
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
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
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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Desire Fire Wind
Sometimes an hour of Fate’s serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
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Dream Fate Sky
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind

Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

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Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.

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