Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWAs to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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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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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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