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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

Bayard Taylor

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
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
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
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
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 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 hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
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
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Mind Mountain Past
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
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise

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