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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.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey but I like to go by myself.
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Words are the only things that last for ever.
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Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, No. There was a fire in the room.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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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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The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound 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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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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