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The glories of the possible are ours.

Bayard Taylor

Fame is what you have taken, / Character’s what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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Character Giving Taken
The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
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Beautiful Healing Stars
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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Hope Night Past
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart’s-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet’s journal, writ in fire and tears… Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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Blood Fire Heart
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Comfort Sea Voyages

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