By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
BAYARD TAYLORSweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.
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Sometimes an hour of Fate’s serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
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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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The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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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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Life lives only in success.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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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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