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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.

Bayard Taylor

Sometimes an hour of Fate’s serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
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Dream Fate Sky
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
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
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
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
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
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
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
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
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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Apollo Athlete Race
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Mind Mountain Past
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

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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