Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
BAYARD TAYLORBy wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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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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The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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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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Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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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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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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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of ‘creature comforts,’ a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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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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I know I am–that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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