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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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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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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
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Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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