Top 82 Bayard Taylor Quotes
#1. Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
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#2. London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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#3. The clouds are scudding across the moon,
A misty light is on the sea;
The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune,
And the foam is flying free.
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#4. People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
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#6. The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
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#7. As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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#8. When May, with cowslip-braided locks,
Walks through the land in green attire.
And burns in meadow-grass the phlox
His torch of purple fire:
And when the punctual May arrives,
With cowslip-garland on her brow,
We know what once she gave our lives,
And cannot give us now!
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#9. I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters ... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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#10. And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds,
Is one with Prayer.
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#11. I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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#12. 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 Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future ...
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#13. I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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#15. The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
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#16. And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
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#17. Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.
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#18. 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 ... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years ...
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#19. Learn to live, and live to learn,
Ignorance like a fire doth burn,
Little tasks make large return.
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#20. I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old
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#21. We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run?
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#23. Departed suns their trails of splendor drew
Across departed summers: whispers came
From voices, long ago resolved again
Into the primeval Silence, and we twain,
Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same,
As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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#24. The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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#25. Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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#26. But still I dream that somewhere there must be
The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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#27. I know I am
that simplest bliss
The millions of my brothers miss.
I know the fortune to be born,
Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
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#28. Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
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#29. And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
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#30. The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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 in or near it.
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#35. Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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#36. The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
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#37. The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
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#38. I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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#40. Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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#41. By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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#43. 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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#44. The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one,
In the slow process of the doubtful years.
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#45. 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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#46. The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.
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#47. 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 upon the mind with irresistible force.
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#48. To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.
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#49. There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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#50. I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him, and can not answer!
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#51. My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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#53. An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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#54. I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
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#55. 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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#56. There may come a day
Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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#57. 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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#59. The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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#60. The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
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#61. Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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#64. 'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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#65. 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 that lovely ghost appears, Too fair, too pure, to bid depart; No riper love of later years Can steal its beauty from the heart.
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#66. The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.
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#67. Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
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#68. I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
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#69. The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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#73. Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
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#74. 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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#75. To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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#76. 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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#77. The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
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#78. 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.
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#79. Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
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#80. Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth
Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,
Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,
Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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#81. Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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#82. So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
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