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As 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.

Bayard Taylor

Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Develop Eccentricity Monomania
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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Aim Perfection Unattainable
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Annoying Fool Wells
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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Moon Night Stars
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
The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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Clouds Light Moon
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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Beautiful Flower Scotland
Love is better than Fame.
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Better Fame Love
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
The loving are the daring.
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Daring Engagement Love
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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Atmosphere Country World
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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Comfort Sea Voyages
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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Doors Experience House
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
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Humility Love Pride True

As 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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As 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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