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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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The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.
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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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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Life lives only in success.
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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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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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By wisdom wealth is won but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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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 love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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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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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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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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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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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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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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