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PageAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageCriticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageNeither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to proscribe, and admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageIt is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageIn my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, howev admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageThere is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageHalf of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageIt is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageWe are suffering from too much sarcasm. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageDoubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men h admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageOurs is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageTen censure wrong, for one that writes amiss. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageMost of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageFirst, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageCreative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated s admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageIf you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been don admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageThoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageA good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageBecause women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experien admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageIt is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageNever explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. admin02 years 35 weeks ago
PageWhat can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? admin02 years 35 weeks ago