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> [My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/my-duty-is-that-of-a-chronicler-and-if-i-perform-that-conscientiously/)

[Bayard Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bayard-taylor/)

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## More by Bayard Taylor

> [Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/above-coblentz-almost-every-mountain-has-a-ruin-and-a-legend-one/)

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> [So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/so-far-as-female-beauty-is-concerned-the-circassian-women-have-no/)

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> [The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/the-maxims-tell-you-to-aim-at-perfection-which-is-well-but-it-s/)

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> [To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/to-truth-s-house-there-is-a-single-door-which-is-experience/)

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> [But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/but-still-i-dream-that-somewhere-there-must-be-the-spirit-of-a-child/)

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> [Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/departed-suns-their-trails-of-splendor-drew-across-departed-summers/)

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> [Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/fame-is-what-you-have-taken-character-is-what-you-give-when-to-this/)

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> [Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/although-damascus-is-considered-the-oldest-city-in-the-world-the-date/)

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> [London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/london-has-the-advantage-of-one-of-the-most-gloomy-atmospheres-in-the/)

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> [To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/to-learn-by-observation-is-traveling-people-must-also-bring-knowledge/)

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> [Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/poetry-had-great-powers-over-me-from-my-childhood-and-today-the-poems/)

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> [In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/in-the-glory-which-overhangs-palestine-afar-off-we-imagine-emotions/)

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> [The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks A scarlet rain; the yellow violet Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox Held spikes of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/the-aquilegia-sprinkled-on-the-rocks-a-scarlet-rain-the-yellow-violet/)

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> [The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/the-hollows-are-heavy-and-dank-with-the-steam-of-the-goldenrods/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bayard-taylor/the-clouds-are-scudding-across-the-moon-a-misty-light-is-on-the-sea/)

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