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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt
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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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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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We must be doing something to be happy.
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
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Features alone do not run in the blood vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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