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.
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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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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But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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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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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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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Love is better than Fame.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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The loving are the daring.
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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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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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