There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
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There are only 3 pleasures in life pure and lasting, and they all are derived from inanimate things books, pictures, and the face of nature.William Hazlitt
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. . . . Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident.
William Hazlitt
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
William Hazlitt
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them.
William Hazlitt
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
William Hazlitt
His thoughts did not seem to come with labour and effort but as if borne on gusts of genius, and as if the wings of his imagination lifted him off from his feet. . . . His mind was clothed with wings and raised on them, he lifted philosophy to heaven.
William Hazlitt
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