It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.
BAYARD TAYLORTo learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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The glories of the possible are ours.
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Life lives only in success.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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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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I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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The loving are the daring.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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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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