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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

Bayard Taylor

Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart’s-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet’s journal, writ in fire and tears… Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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Blood Fire Heart
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
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
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
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
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
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
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
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
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Art Desire Success

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