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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
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