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 TAYLORMock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Sometimes an hour of Fate’s serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Love is better than Fame.
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Life lives only in success.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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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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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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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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