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By wisdom wealth is won but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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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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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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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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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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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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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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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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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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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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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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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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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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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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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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