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- The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
- You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
- The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul,…
- 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…
- The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
- The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and…
- The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
- Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
- The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
- Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang…
- There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I…
- Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
- Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
- Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
- Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
- The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see…
- Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
- The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their…
- The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
- The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
- Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable…
- Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
- The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
- William Hazlitt quotes The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of…
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