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Quote by William Hazlitt
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. – William Hazlitt

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Learning
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William Hazlitt
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable. – William Hazlitt

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Integrity
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. – Peter McArthur

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. – Fran Lebowitz

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through. РPaul Val̩ry, Mauvaises pens̩es et autres, 1942

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Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. – Bill Fitch

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All cruelty springs from weakness. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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The history of liberty is a history of resistance. – Woodrow Wilson

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From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. – Syrus

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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. – Michelangelo

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