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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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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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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, No. There was a fire in the room.
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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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The worst old age is that of the mind.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
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A felon could plead benefit of clergy and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the neck verse, which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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