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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
William Carew Hazlitt
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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An honest man is respected by all parties.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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