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Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them.
The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them.
The author might often reply: Is that my fault?
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.
He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
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He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that read more
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where read more
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
A servile race
Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;
Who blind obedience pay to read more
A servile race
Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;
Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools,
Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.