The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWInto each life some rain must fall.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
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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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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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