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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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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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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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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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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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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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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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Life lives only in success.
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By wisdom wealth is won but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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