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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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Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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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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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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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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The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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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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Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Peace the offspring is of Power.
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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.
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