Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
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The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly.William Hazlitt
Ignorance alone makes monsters or bug-bears our actual acquaintances are all very common-place people.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
William Hazlitt
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