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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
Ah, how wonderful is the advent of spring!
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
The country is lyric,—the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
The natural alone is permanent.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849)