Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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