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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.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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