Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
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Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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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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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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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