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Love is better than Fame.

Bayard Taylor

The 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.
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Apollo Athlete Race
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
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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Dream Fate Sky
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Aim Perfection Unattainable
We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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Ocean Running Space
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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Different Firsts People
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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Excellence Hard Perseverance Work
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Higher Perfect Song
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Glee Ocean Swelling
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen

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