The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
BAYARD TAYLORSwelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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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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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Life lives only in success.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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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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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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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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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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