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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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Fame
Begin
Taken
Truth
Character
Give
Live
Giving
Waken

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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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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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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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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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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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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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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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