The 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.

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The 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.

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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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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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Olives
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Love is better than Fame.

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Love is better than Fame.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.

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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.

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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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Unattainable
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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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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Perfect
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.

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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know
Life lives only in success.

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Life lives only in success.
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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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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 Race
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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.

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Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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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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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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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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