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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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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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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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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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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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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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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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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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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.
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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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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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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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