Life lives only in success.
BAYARD TAYLOROpportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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The glories of the possible are ours.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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