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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
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I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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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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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
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