"I could never see a book written in……" — Bayard Taylor
"I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it."
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Bayard Taylor
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58 Quotes by Bayard Taylor
Bayard Taylor has 58 quotes on this site.
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Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then…
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The loving are the daring.
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Love's humility is love's true pride.
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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for…
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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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The healing of the world is in its nameless saints. Each separate star seems nothing, but a myriad scattered stars…
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From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In…
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I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
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Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is…
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Voluptuous bloom and fragrance rare The summer to its rose may bring; Far sweeter to the wooing air The hidden…
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More Ardent Quotes
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An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
— Robert Benchley
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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its…
— Theodore Bikel
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect…
— David Brainerd
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion…
— Edmund Burke
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to…
— Sam Abell
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
— Pete Dye
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The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create…
— Plutarch
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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