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.
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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 mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Resolve and thou art free.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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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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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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