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Experience makes us wise.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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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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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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Natural affection is a prejudice for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
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An honest man is respected by all parties.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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