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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.

Bayard Taylor

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
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
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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Comfort Sea Voyages
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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Excellence Hard Perseverance Work
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 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
The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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Clouds Light Moon
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
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
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Fire Ignorance Learning
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
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom

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