Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThat which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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