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The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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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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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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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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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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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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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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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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