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1205 Critic Quotes

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

World Nothing Convinced Errors
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
War Others Peace Themselves
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Truly Great Person Thought
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why,

Smart Observe One Why
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Prejudice Child Ignorance
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Travel's greatest purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Greatest Purpose Mind Open
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We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves

We Disposed Quarrel Ourselves
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Vice Forgiven Hypocrisy Repentance
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Books Souls Secrets Our own
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Man Laughs Weeps Animal
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

World Loves Forgive Honest truth
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits.

Laugh Person Health Beauty
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Love Liberty Power Ourselves
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

Nature Eyes Understanding Hearts
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity

Our Confidence Capacity
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Grace Defined Harmony Soul
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

Pain Concern Gives Destruction
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity Great Teacher Adversity
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

Better Read Write Able
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

Happy True Nature Age
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal Will More Knowledge
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Great thoughts Practice Acts
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Grace Women Effect Beauty
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

You Win Faith Victory
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Man Great Lifetime History
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

Hope Possession Wretched Low
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Those who can command themselves command others.

Who Command Themselves Others
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Man Opinion Rules Morality
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Never Cease Think Manner
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead

Ways Thinking Follow Lead
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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Man Reading Alive Book
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds

Speak Oppression Tyranny Bonds
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Man Understands Book Lived
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Literature is news that stays news.

Literature News Stays
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

Days Nights Life Like
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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
Slave Waits Someone Come
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Literature is language charged with meaning

Literature Language Meaning
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Fundamental Statement Morality Writing
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself

People Grows Writing Process
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work

Pay Criticism Men Written
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Nothing matter but the quality of the affection in the end that has carved the trace in the mind

Matter Quality Affection Mind
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Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise

Art Immoral Virtue Witness
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation

Thing Artist Work Leisure
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

Artist Nature Open Give
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Words Things Kingdoms Diminish
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension

Human Wisdom Language Forms
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
One Reading Man Keys
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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Art Work Beginning Worth
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If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

Man Risk Opinions Good
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Rhythm must have meaning.

Rhythm Meaning
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