The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
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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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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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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Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
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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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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
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Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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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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Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
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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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