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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

Bayard Taylor

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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Different Firsts People
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
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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Clouds Light Moon
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
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 Athlete Race
In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Afar Emotion Soil
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
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
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
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
Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Know Labor Prayer
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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Comfort Sea Voyages
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

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

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