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Quote by William Hazlitt
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. - William Hazlitt

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. – William Hazlitt

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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. – William Hazlitt

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Friendship
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt

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Wisdom
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One of the best things about paintings is their silence — which prompts reflection and random reverie. – Mark Stevens

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. – Loren Eiseley, The Night Country, 1971

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Art

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when its simply necessary to love. – Claude Monet

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A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. – Beverly Sills

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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold. – Aristotle

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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. Psalms 27:4 – Bible

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Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious. – Larry David

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