Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWLike a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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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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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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If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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