Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less…

Quote by William Hazlitt

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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they...

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they...

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and...

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and...

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing...

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single...

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single...

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I...

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

The more we do, the more we can do.

The more we do, the more we can do.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere...

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere...

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than...

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to...

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to...

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

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...

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.