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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
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What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
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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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We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
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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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