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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.

Bayard Taylor

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
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
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
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
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Fire Ignorance Learning
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
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
Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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Blue Color Tree
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
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 bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement

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