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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

Bayard Taylor

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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Moon Night Stars
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
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
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
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
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
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Fire Ignorance Learning
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
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
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
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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Ashes Death Green
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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Different Firsts People
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Deeds Prayer Virtuous
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
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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Cities Foundation World
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
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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Art Desire Success
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam

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