Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.William Hazlitt
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes. . .
William Hazlitt
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols --it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
William Hazlitt
Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
William Hazlitt
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
William Hazlitt
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