Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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As 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.
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Life lives only in success.
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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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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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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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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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The loving are the daring.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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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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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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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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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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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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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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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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