Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThe greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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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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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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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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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in 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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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