Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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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.
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Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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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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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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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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