Criticism

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and rootpuller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring
This dull product of a scoffer's pen.

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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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