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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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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
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The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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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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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. I count only the hours that are serene..
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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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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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.
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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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