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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
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Malice often takes the garb of truth.
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A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
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There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.
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We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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