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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! — Bayard Taylor

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. — Herbert Bayard Swope

Learn to live, and live to learn,
Ignorance like a fire doth burn,
Little tasks make large return. — Bayard Taylor

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; Alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. — Bayard Taylor

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. — Herbert Bayard Swope

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people. — Bayard Taylor

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

My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out. — Bayard Taylor

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one,
In the slow process of the doubtful years. — Bayard Taylor

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. — Bayard Taylor

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow. — Bayard Rustin

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn — Bayard Rustin

Pens carry further than rifled cannon. — Bayard Taylor

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool. — Bayard Taylor

Peace the offspring is of Power. — Bayard Taylor

Sweeter than the stolen kiss Are the granted kisses — Bayard Taylor

We follow and race In shifting chase, Over the boundless ocean-space! Who hath beheld when the race begun? Who shall behold it run? — Bayard Taylor

The loving are the daring. — Bayard Taylor

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. — J.K. Rowling

The proof that one truly believes is in action. — Bayard Rustin

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity. — Bayard Taylor

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

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. — Bayard Taylor

Love is better than Fame. — Bayard Taylor

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain. — Bayard Taylor

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. — Bayard Rustin

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth. — Bayard Taylor

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!' — Bayard Taylor

There may come a day
Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth,
And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth! — Bayard Taylor

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up. — Louis Bayard

Labor, you know, is prayer. — Bayard Taylor

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. — Bayard Taylor

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble. — Bayard Rustin

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful. — Bayard Taylor

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience. — Bayard Taylor

Love's humility is love's true pride. — Bayard Taylor

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one. — Herbert Bayard Swope

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. — Bayard Rustin

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee. — Bayard Taylor

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. — Bayard Taylor

But still I dream that somewhere there must be
The spirit of a child that waits for me. — Bayard Taylor

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds,
Is one with Prayer. — Bayard Taylor

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language. — Bayard Taylor

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way. — Bayard Rustin

I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows. — Louis Bayard

People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. — Bayard Taylor

Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa. — Bayard Taylor

The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world. — Bayard Taylor

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody. — Herbert Bayard Swope

The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision ... — Bayard Rustin

London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world. — Bayard Taylor

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them. — Bayard Taylor

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. — Bayard Rustin

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none. — Bayard Taylor

He's a rather brilliant defensive tactician," Grimm said. "I agree," Bayard said. "The problem is that he's an inept defensive strategist. — Jim Butcher

The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian. — Bayard Taylor

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

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader. — Bayard Rustin

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado. — Bayard Taylor

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live. — Bayard Taylor

Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse. — Bayard Taylor

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying. — Bayard Rustin

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. — Bayard Taylor

The hollows are heavy and dank
With the steam of the Goldenrods. — Bayard Taylor

Life lives only in success. — Bayard Taylor

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. — Bayard Taylor

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

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap. — Bayard Taylor

Love is a fire that can nurture or destroy, but you can't tell which until you surrender to the flames. — Clara Bayard

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation. — Pierre Bayard

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

The knowledge of my sin
Is half-repentance. — Bayard Taylor

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. — Bayard Taylor

I love thee, I love but thee,
With a love that shall not die
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old — Bayard Taylor

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. — Bayard Rustin

Eccentricity is developed monomania. — Bayard Taylor

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. — Bayard Rustin

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

if you want to be able to talk about a place, the best thing to do is stay at home. — Pierre Bayard