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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.
Bayard Taylor
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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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The Prophet's words were true The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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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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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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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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