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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Bayard Taylor

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
Fame is what you have taken, / Character’s what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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Character Giving Taken
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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Ocean Running Space
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.
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Different Firsts People
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
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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Comfort Sea Voyages
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
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
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
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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Children Dark Spring

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