The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.William Hazlitt
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
William Hazlitt
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
William Hazlitt
We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
William Hazlitt
Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream and the height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. They wear the livery of other men's fortunes their very thoughts are not their own.
William Hazlitt
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
William Hazlitt
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