Labor, you know, is prayer.
BAYARD TAYLORThe most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
More Bayard Taylor Quotes
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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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The Poet’s leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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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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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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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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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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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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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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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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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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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Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.
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Life lives only in success.
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