Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFor 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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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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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