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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

Bayard Taylor

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
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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Baltimore Cities Two
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
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
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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Desire Fire Wind
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
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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Art Desire Success
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
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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Experience Heart Men
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
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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Bliss Brother Missing
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
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 knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

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