Love is better than Fame.
BAYARD TAYLORThe Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Departed 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.
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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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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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The loving are the daring.
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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The glories of the possible are ours.
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