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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.

Bayard Taylor

Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
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
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
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
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
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
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
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
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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Different Firsts People
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Aim Perfection Unattainable

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