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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

Bayard Taylor

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
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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Apollo Athlete Race
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
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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Mind Mountain Past
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 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
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
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Afar Emotion Soil
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Higher Perfect Song
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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Children Dark Spring
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
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.

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