The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
BAYARD TAYLORThe hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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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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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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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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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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The glories of the possible are ours.
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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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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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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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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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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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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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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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