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Experience makes us wise.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Experience
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Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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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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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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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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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman dignity is proper to noblemen and majesty to kings.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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