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Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Power
Sweetens
Pleasure
Pain

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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
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Books wind into the heart.
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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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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
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