The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself that is impatient of all limit that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism And when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.William Hazlitt
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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We may, with instruction and opportunity mend our manners, or else alter for the worse, -- as the flesh and fortune shall serve but the character, the internal, original bias, remains always the same, true to itself to the very last.
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
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It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.
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