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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
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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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