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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.

Bayard Taylor

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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Ashes Death Green
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
Although 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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Cities Foundation World
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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Moon Night Stars
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
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
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Higher Perfect Song
Sometimes an hour of Fate’s serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
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Dream Fate Sky
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
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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Excellence Hard Perseverance Work
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste

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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