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 shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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The human voice is the organ of the soul.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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