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.
BAYARD TAYLORWho 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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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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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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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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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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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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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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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one’s own.
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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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