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- Bayard Taylor: American poet, travel author, and diplomat
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: English poet and critic
- A. J. P. Taylor: British historian
- Elizabeth Taylor: British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian
- Jeremy Taylor: British churchman and writer
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.
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By Wisdom wealth is won; But riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you begin to live.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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No one does anything from a single motive.
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
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'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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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.'
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.
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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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