People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWCritics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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