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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
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
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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Mirror Mirrors Self Summer Wander
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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Bliss Brother Missing
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
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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Desire Fire Wind
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.
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Different Firsts People
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
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Art Desire Success
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
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
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
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
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
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom

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

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