Criticism Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s reflections on criticism are lyrical and thoughtful. In this compact set of eight lines, he weaves moral insight with graceful language, inviting contemplation.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits…

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The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made…

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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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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A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of…

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A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man…

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In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the…

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“ Endymion The rising moon has hid the stars; Her level rays, like golden bars, Lie on the landscape green, With shadows brown between.…

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There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

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Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

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Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors.

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“ Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers,— Dwelt in the love of God and of man. Alike were they free from Fear,…

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The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they…

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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…

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All things come round to him who will but wait.

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Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain,…

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Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind,…

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Books are sepulchres of thought.

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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…

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Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among…

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