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Criticism Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.
- Blame is safer than praise
- Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
- There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.
- Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.
- No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.
- Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.
- We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.
- Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
- Homoeopathy is insignificant as an art of healing, but of great value as criticism on thehygeia or medical practice of the time. Share
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