In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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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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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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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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