I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
BAYARD TAYLORBut still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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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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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 maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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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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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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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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The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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The loving are the daring.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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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 stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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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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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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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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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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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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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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