Quote by William Hazlitt
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. – William Hazlitt

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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. – William Hazlitt

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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. – Orison Swett Marden

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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. – Ishmael Reed

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Sentiment is the ripened fruit of fantasy. – Madame Belazy

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Man is an imagining being. – Gaston Bachelard

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