Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
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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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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
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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 adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing.
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Silent Love. (From The German)
Who love would seek,
Let him love evermore
And seldom speak:
For in love's domain
Silence must reign;
Or it brings the heart
Smart
And pain.
poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We see but dimly through the mists and vapors
Amid these earthly damps
What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.
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Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
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The heights by great men reached and kept
were not attained by sudden flight,
but they while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
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