The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.William Hazlitt
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will. . .
William Hazlitt
Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies.
William Hazlitt
The fields his study, nature was his book.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
William Hazlitt
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