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Peace the offspring is of Power.

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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Life lives only in success.
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Love is better than Fame.
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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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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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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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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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 maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well but it's unattainable, all the same.
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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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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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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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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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