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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

Bayard Taylor

The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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Color Flame Rain Rocks Sprinkle
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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Clouds Light Moon
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Deeds Prayer Virtuous
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Glee Ocean Swelling
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Aim Perfection Unattainable
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
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
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
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
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.
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Home Mountain Perfect
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory

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