Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.
Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
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