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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.

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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