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

Bayard Taylor

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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Baltimore Cities Two
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Glee Ocean Swelling
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
Labor, you know, is prayer.
BAYARD TAYLOR

Know Labor Prayer
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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Love Spring Summer
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
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
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
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 maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Aim Perfection Unattainable
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen

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

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