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.
BAYARD TAYLORAlthough 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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Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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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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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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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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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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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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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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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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