Author: Bayard Taylor

Quotes

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

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

- Bayard Taylor

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

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

- Bayard Taylor

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

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

- Bayard Taylor

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.

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

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