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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
William Hazlitt
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William Carew Hazlitt
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He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
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There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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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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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person'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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