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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

As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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Ascent Olives
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
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
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
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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Character Giving Taken
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
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
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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Cities Foundation World
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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Children Dark Spring
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

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