Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Criticism Quotes, Pieces Quotes

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

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It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.

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Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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Blame is safer than praise

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He who slings mud generally loses ground.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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