Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWFor age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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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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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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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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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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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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