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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.

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Although Antiquity Beyond City Considered Date Few Foundation Going Near Oldest Relic Tradition Very World

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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

Topics: All Things Beautiful Beauty Before Body Crown Daily Delivered Envy Ever Eyes Greek Had Hands Highest Human Human Body Models Old Perfect Produced Things Those Types Were Which Whose World

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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

Topics: Among Ancient Apollo Approach Arab Athlete Ethiopia Ever Nearest Our Race Sculpture Seen Supply Symmetry Tribes

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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

Topics: Beauty Concerned Descended Display Far Female Home Loveliness Models Mountain Perfect Physical Preserved Purity Still Type Us Venus Whose Women

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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Altogether Arkansas California Came County Dialect First Illinois Life Long Man Missouri Native Northern Ours Over Phrase Plains Short Short Life Soon Southern Texas Too Were

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

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Beauty Delicate German Italian Language Manhood Strong Swedish

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

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Beautiful Europe Nothing

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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!

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Answer Dog Face Helplessness Him Indeed Know More Moving Nothing Said Than Understands Who Yearning

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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.

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Age Attempts Childhood Desperate Drove Great Had Imitation Live Me Memory Over Poems Poetry Powers Read Today Which Years

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

~Bayard Taylor

Topics: Ardent Book Could Desire Foreign Foreign Language Language Most Never Read See Without Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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