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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

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
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
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
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
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
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
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
I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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Bliss Brother Missing
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World

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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