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The more we do, the more we can do the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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The soul of dispatch is decision.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Time,--the most independent of all things.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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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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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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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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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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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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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.
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