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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

Bayard Taylor

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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Desire Fire Wind
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
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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Color Flame Rain Rocks Sprinkle
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 stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
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.
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Different Firsts People
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
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Afar Emotion Soil
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
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
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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Character Giving Taken
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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Clouds Light Moon

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

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