The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOWThere is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
More Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
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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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Love gives itself; it is not bought.
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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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A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
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Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
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The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person’s mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
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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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Critics 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 love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
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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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When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
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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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The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
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