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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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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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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!
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Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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The bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Alone each heart must cover up its dead Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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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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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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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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Life lives only in success.
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