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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

Bayard Taylor

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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Home Mountain Perfect
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
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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Excellence Hard Perseverance Work
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
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
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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Childhood Children Dream
The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
The glories of the possible are ours.
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Future Glory
Life lives only in success.
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Life Live Success
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
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
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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Hope Night Past

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

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