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.
BAYARD TAYLORThe glories of the possible are ours.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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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.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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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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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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The loving are the daring.
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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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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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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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Life lives only in success.
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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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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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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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