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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 present is an age of talkers, and not of doers and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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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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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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Well I've had a happy life.
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Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.
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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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An honest man is respected by all parties.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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