Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
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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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
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Evil is only good perverted.
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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
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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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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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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
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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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He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
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The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
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For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
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That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.
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Talk not of wasted affection – affection never was wasted.
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It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
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Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.
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Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
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Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
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All things come round to him who will but wait.
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