By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
BAYARD TAYLORLove’s humility is love’s true pride.
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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 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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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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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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From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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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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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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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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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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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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