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There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. I count only the hours that are serene..

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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