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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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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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In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
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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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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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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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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge.
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