So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
BAYARD TAYLORHe teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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Love is better than Fame.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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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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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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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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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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