Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhen she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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