The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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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Into each life some rain must fall.
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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
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Resolve and thou art free.
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Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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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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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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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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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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There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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