Love is better than Fame.
BAYARD TAYLORThe hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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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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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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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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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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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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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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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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