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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

Bayard Taylor

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Pain Sea Wind
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
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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Dream Fate Sky
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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Bonfire Poppies Tides
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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Deeds Prayer Virtuous
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
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Glee Ocean Swelling
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
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
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
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Childhood Desire Long
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
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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Character Giving Taken

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