Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
BAYARD TAYLORAs 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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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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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The loving are the daring.
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The glories of the possible are ours.
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To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Really,’ thought I, ‘we call Baltimore the ‘Monumental City’ for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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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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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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But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
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And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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