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Books wind into the heart.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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William Carew Hazlitt
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As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence and we become misers in this respect.
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Dandyism is a species of genius.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.
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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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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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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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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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Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
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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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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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He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
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