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Bayard Taylor Quotes

American - Journalist | January 11, 1825 - December 19, 1878

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

Beauty Strong Language Delicate

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

Beautiful Nothing Europe Verily

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!

Dog Moving Face Know Said Nothing

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.

Live Age Today Great Childhood Me

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

Book Language Desire Never See Most

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

Success People Never See Poet Been

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

Tough Language Hard Study Attractive

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.

History Broken Unity Complicated

There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

Confidence Honesty People Strangers

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

I Am People World More See I See

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

Character People Moral Little Far

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

Duty Will Need Out Lessons Pointing

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