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There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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May
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By wisdom wealth is won but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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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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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Life lives only in success.
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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.
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Labor, you know, is prayer.
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We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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The bravest are the most tender the loving are the daring.
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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.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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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.
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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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