People demand freedom only when they have no power.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Critics 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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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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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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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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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