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The essence of poetry is will and passion.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.
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There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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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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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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