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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

Bayard Taylor

The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart’s-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet’s journal, writ in fire and tears… Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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Blood Fire Heart
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
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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Bliss Brother Missing
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
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
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
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
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
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
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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Childhood Children Dream
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love

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