As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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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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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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