The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
BAYARD TAYLORThe bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
BAYARD TAYLORAnd far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
BAYARD TAYLORBut who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
BAYARD TAYLORAnd rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
BAYARD TAYLORIn the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
BAYARD TAYLORAs 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.
BAYARD TAYLORLife lives only in success.
BAYARD TAYLORLove is better than Fame.
BAYARD TAYLORThe nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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.
BAYARD TAYLORThe most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
BAYARD TAYLORLabor, you know, is prayer.
BAYARD TAYLORBy wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
BAYARD TAYLORThe stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
BAYARD TAYLORLondon has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
BAYARD TAYLORThe 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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