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Love is better than Fame.
The loving are the daring.
Life lives only in success.
Labor, you know, is prayer.
Peace the offspring is of Power.
Eccentricity is developed monomania.
Love's humility is love's true pride.
The glories of the possible are ours.
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee.
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.
The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.
Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest.
But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.
Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.
He teaches best, Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
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.
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.