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The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Bayard Taylor

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Fire Ignorance Learning
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
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Heart Solitude
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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Baltimore Cities Two
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
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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Love Spring Summer
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Art Desire Success
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
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
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind

The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

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