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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

William Hazlitt

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William 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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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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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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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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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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Whatever interests is interesting.
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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