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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.

Bayard Taylor

Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Fire Ignorance Learning
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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Ocean Running Space
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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Bliss Brother Missing
But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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Moon Night Stars
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
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.

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