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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

Bayard Taylor

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
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
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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Comfort Sea Voyages
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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Home Mountain Perfect
Fame is what you have taken, / Character’s what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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Character Giving Taken
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
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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Mirror Mirrors Self Summer Wander
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
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
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

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