The busier we are the more leisure we have.

Quote by William Hazlitt

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not...

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain...

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain...

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes,...

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes,...

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.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of...

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of...

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to...

The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to...

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

We are not hypocrites in our sleep

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force...

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force...

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for...

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence...

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence...

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

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...

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to...

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to...

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations

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.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

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...