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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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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.
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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The soul of dispatch is decision.
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We are governed by sympathy and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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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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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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Faith is necessary to victory.
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