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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

Bayard Taylor

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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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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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 bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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Life lives only in success.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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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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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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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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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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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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