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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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Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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Hope is the best possession.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
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A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
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