Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
BAYARD TAYLORI love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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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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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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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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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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The glories of the possible are ours.
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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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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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Fame is what you have taken, / Character’s what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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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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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Life lives only in success.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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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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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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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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