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The bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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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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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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By wisdom wealth is won but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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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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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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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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Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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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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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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