Bayard Taylor Quotes

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• I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.

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  I Love You, Old Love, Thee

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.134

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• With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

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  Children, Spring, Dark

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.408

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• 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 make it beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Stars, Healing

  Bayard Taylor (1873). “Lars: A Pastoral of Norway”, p.144

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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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  Learning, Ignorance, Fire

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• And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

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  Tides, Poppies, Bonfire

  Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20

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• By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

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  Wisdom, Riches, Wealth

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.129

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• The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

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  Fool, Annoying, Wells

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• He teaches best,
  Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
  And knows their strength or weakness through his own.

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  Heart, Men, Experience

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.93

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• The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

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  Courage, Engagement, Daring

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• Pens carry further than rifled cannon.

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  Cannons, Pens

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• Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

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  Wise, Opportunity, Men

  Bayard Taylor (2016). “A Journey to Central Africa: Egypt and Soudan, 1851”, p.43, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Peace the offspring is of Power.

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  Peace, Offspring

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.411

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• And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

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  Pain, Wind, Sea

  Bayard Taylor (1856). “Poems”, p.226

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• To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

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  People, Observation

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• Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

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  Tangible, Taste, Jewelry

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• Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

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  Perseverance, Hard Work, Excellence

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• Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses

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  Kissing, Granted, Stolen

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.162

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• It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

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  People, Different, Firsts

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Views A-foot: Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.88

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• But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

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  Stars, Moon, Night

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.311

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• Love is better than Fame.

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  Love, Love Is, Fame

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• Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
  And soon the grassy coverlet of God
  Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.

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  Death, Ashes, Green

  Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.168

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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 Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

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  Home, Perfect, Mountain

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.128, The Floating Press

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• Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.

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  Dream, Fate, Sky

  Bayard Taylor (1875). “Home Pastorals, Ballads and Lyrics”, p.5

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• To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

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  Doors, House, Experience

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.93

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• Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.

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  Ocean, Glee, Swelling

  BAYARD TAYLOR (1855). “POEMS OF HOME AND TRAVEL.”, p.123

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