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.
BAYARD TAYLORBut still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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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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Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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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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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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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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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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The loving are the daring.
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart’s-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet’s journal, writ in fire and tears… Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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