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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.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
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To die is only to be as we were before we were born yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
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Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
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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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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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The only true retirement is that of the heart the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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