A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Quote by William Hazlitt

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with...

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue...

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue...

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who...

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as...

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as...

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements....

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements....

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our...

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our...

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would...

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would...

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we...

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we...

Good temper is an estate for life

Good temper is an estate for life

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

We must be doing something to be happy.

We must be doing something to be happy.

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the...

Genius is a native to the soil where it grows - is fed by the...

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is...

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is...

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they...

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they...

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with...

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with...