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Love is better than Fame.
Bayard Taylor
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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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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.
Bayard Taylor
The Prophet's words were true The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
Bayard Taylor
Peace the offspring is of Power.
Bayard Taylor
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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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
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
Bayard Taylor
Love's humility is love's true pride.
Bayard Taylor
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.
Bayard Taylor
By wisdom wealth is won but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
Bayard Taylor
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
The bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.
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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
Bayard Taylor
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.
Bayard Taylor
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
Bayard Taylor
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
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
Bayard Taylor
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
Labor, you know, is prayer.
Bayard Taylor