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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

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 bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
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
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
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
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
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
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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Mirror Mirrors Self Summer Wander
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
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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Moon Night Stars
The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
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Beautiful Healing Stars
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste

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

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