Quote by William Hazlitt
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being un

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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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging 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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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. – William Hazlitt

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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw

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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931

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A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. – Ted Key

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I dont hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I dont panic. My father was the same way. Im the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to? – Curt Schilling

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The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. – Voltaire

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Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. – Nelson Mandela

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