Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Jean de la Bruyere
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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There is, however, nothing wanting to the idleness of a philosopher but a better name, and that meditation, conversation, and reading should be called work.
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