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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
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Painting gives the object itself poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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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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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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