Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWNot 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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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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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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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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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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