The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWI have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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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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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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