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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them if we are constantly with them, we despise them.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
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