Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
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I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, then that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding.
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A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.
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Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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