Bayard Taylor Quotes

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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.
• The loving are the daring.
• Love's humility is love's true pride.
• Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
• The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
• Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
• 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…
• 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.
• I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
• And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
• Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore…
• Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden violet of spring. Still, still…
• The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears...…
• Labor, you know, is prayer.
• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
• In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.
• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
• Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
• 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…
• Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity…

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