William C. Bryant Quotes
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Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.
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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with…
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The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the…
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue....
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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.
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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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Ah! never shall the land forget.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.
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Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -
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Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered.
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Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
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Look on this beautiful world, and read the truth in her fair page.
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The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all…
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The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by. As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool clear…
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Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
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I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully…
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