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Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.

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Bayard Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1825
Born: January 11
Died: 1878
Died: December 19
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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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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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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By wisdom wealth is won but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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Love is better than Fame.
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Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
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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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Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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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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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.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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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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