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All things come round to him who will but wait.

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Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

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

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

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Evil is only good perverted.

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The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: February 27th, 1807

Died: March 24th, 1882

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