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.
BAYARD TAYLORAnd the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Life lives only in success.
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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 loving are the daring.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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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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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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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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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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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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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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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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