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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

Bayard Taylor

I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
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
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 maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Aim Perfection Unattainable
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
Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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Blue Color Tree
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
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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Half Repentance Sin
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
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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Cities Foundation World
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
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
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Granted Kissing Stolen
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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Ashes Death Green
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Offspring Peace
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
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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Character Giving Taken

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

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