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.
BAYARD TAYLORIt 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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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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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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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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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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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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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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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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