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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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Love is better than Fame.
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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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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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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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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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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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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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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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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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By wisdom wealth is won but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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The bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.
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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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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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