Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man’s enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWIn this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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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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Youth comes but once in a lifetime.
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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning – an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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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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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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I 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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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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