Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Not 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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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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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
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