Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
BAYARD TAYLOROpportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
BAYARD TAYLORSweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
BAYARD TAYLORThe glories of the possible are ours.
BAYARD TAYLORThe most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
BAYARD TAYLORMock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
BAYARD TAYLORI love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
BAYARD TAYLORThe bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
BAYARD TAYLORLondon has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
BAYARD TAYLORLearn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
BAYARD TAYLORAnd far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
BAYARD TAYLORThe stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
BAYARD TAYLORThe 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.
BAYARD TAYLORThose who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
BAYARD TAYLORDeparted suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
BAYARD TAYLORTo Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
BAYARD TAYLORLove is better than Fame.
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