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Words are the only things that last for ever.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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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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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.
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The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
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Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey but I like to go by myself.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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