Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWSpilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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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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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
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