Labor, you know, is prayer.
BAYARD TAYLORAlthough Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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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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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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 knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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The loving are the daring.
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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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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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