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Fame is what you have taken, / Character’s what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

Bayard Taylor

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
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
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Apollo Athlete Race
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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Blue Color Tree
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Glee Ocean Swelling
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
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
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

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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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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