Quote

He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.

Bayard Taylor

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
Critic
Diplomat
Explorer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Translator
Writer
Men
Weakness
Hearts
Strength
Teach
Experience
Best
Breast
Feels
Breasts
Heart
Teaches

More quotes by Bayard Taylor

Image
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Love's humility is love's true pride.
Bayard Taylor
Image
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.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Love is better than Fame.
Bayard Taylor
Image
But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
Bayard Taylor
Image
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.
Bayard Taylor
Image
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.
Bayard Taylor
Image
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
Bayard Taylor
Image
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
Bayard Taylor
Image
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
Bayard Taylor
Image
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.
Bayard Taylor
Image
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
Bayard Taylor
Image
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.
Bayard Taylor
Image
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.
Bayard Taylor
Image
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.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Peace the offspring is of Power.
Bayard Taylor
Image
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
Bayard Taylor