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By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Bayard Taylor

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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Experience Heart Men
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
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 Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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Poet Process Years
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
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Jewelry Tangible Taste
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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Fire Ignorance Learning
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
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
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
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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Mind Mountain Past
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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Excellence Hard Perseverance Work

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

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