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.
BAYARD TAYLORThe stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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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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Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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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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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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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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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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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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