And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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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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I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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Life lives only in success.
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Love is better than Fame.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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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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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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The glories of the possible are ours.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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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.
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