- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of Oriental splendor; the world has no picture more dazzling. It is Beauty carried to the Sublime, as I have felt when overlooking some boundless forest of palms within the tropics.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
- Divide
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- Nov 07, 2020
The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020