Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWCritics 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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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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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People demand freedom only when they have no power.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
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