The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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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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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It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
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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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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
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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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Evil is only good perverted.
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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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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
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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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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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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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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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