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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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That which is not, shall never be that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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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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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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We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman dignity is proper to noblemen and majesty to kings.
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Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
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Time,--the most independent of all things.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
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