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.
BAYARD TAYLORThe clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Love is better than Fame.
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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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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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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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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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