The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
BAYARD TAYLORThe aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet, And all the streams with vernal-scented reed Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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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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To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
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The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars break up the night and make it beautiful.
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Love is better than Fame.
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Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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Love’s humility is love’s true pride.
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Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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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 stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy’s bonfire spread.
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