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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.

Bayard Taylor

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 most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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Home Mountain Perfect
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Higher Perfect Song
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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Moon Night Stars
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
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
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
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
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.

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