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Books wind into the heart.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
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Words are the only things that last for ever.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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