The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. Bayard Taylor More Quotes by Bayard Taylor More Quotes From Bayard Taylor I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die. Bayard Taylor old-love i-love-you thee Learn to live, and live to learn, Bayard Taylor learning ignorance fire The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool. Bayard Taylor wells fool annoying By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none. Bayard Taylor riches wealth wisdom Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, Bayard Taylor ashes green death With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March! Bayard Taylor dark spring children And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. Bayard Taylor bonfire poppies tides 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. Bayard Taylor stars healing beautiful Pens carry further than rifled cannon. Bayard Taylor cannons pens Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses Bayard Taylor stolen granted kissing Peace the offspring is of Power. Bayard Taylor offspring peace And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. Bayard Taylor pain sea wind 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. Bayard Taylor different people firsts The clouds are scudding across the moon, Bayard Taylor light moon clouds 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. Bayard Taylor land eye country 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. Bayard Taylor eye beautiful hands Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it. Bayard Taylor mountain war hands 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. Bayard Taylor mountain perfect home The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse. Bayard Taylor differences eye dark 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. Bayard Taylor apollo race athlete
