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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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Unattainable
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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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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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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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