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The worst old age is that of the mind.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
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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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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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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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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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