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Love's humility is love's true pride.

Bayard Taylor

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
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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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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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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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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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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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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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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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