Quote by William Hazlitt
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the h

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – 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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Nature
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. – William Hazlitt

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Hope
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

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Superstition
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Memory is the mother of all wisdom. – Aeschylus

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Wisdom

Im someone whos done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s. – Elizabeth McGovern

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Wisdom

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. – Mary Astell

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Wisdom

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe. – Lord Salisbury

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Wisdom

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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely. – Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History

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Society

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill

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History

My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members cause theyre not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! – Grey DeLisle

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cool

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

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Poetry