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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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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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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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To die is only to be as we were before we were born yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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