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Sense Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
- Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
- The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
- The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
- 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…
- As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become…
- The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
- Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the…
- Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
- Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter,…
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