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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

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
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Art Desire Success
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
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
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
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Comfort Sea Voyages
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
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
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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