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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.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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While we desire, we do not enjoy and with enjoyment desire ceases.
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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Well I've had a happy life.
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I am then never less alone than when alone
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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