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.
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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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