Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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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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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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