The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWWhenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.
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For 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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Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
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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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