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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.

Bayard Taylor

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Fire Ignorance Learning
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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Hope Night Past
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
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
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
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Deeds Prayer Virtuous

To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.

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