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.
BAYARD TAYLORFrom the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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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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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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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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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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The 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.
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From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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The loving are the daring.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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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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Life lives only in success.
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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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