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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language -- it is not every one that can read in it.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Well, I've had a happy life.
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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They are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream; a studied madness.
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Grace is the absence of every thing that indicates pain or difficulty, or hesitation or incongruity.
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All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it.
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He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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We are all of us more or less the slaves of opinion.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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William Hazlitt |
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
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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 great requisite ... for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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We can scarcely hate any one that we know.
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No young man believes he shall ever die.
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The art of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll, at which FAME blushes!
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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Those who can command themselves, command others.
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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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William Hazlitt |
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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