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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

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
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
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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Hope Night Past
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
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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Mirror Mirrors Self Summer Wander
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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Childhood Children Dream
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Glee Ocean Swelling
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
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
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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Beautiful Healing Stars
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Childhood Desire Long

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

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