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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.

Bayard Taylor

Sometimes an hour of Fate’s serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
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Dream Fate Sky
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
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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Ascent Olives
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
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
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
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
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
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Children Dark Spring
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
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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Mirror Mirrors Self Summer Wander
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
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
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World

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