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«Right, in a word, is the duty which each man owes to himself; or it is that portion of the general good of which (as being principally interested) he is made the special judge, and which is put under his immediate keeping.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
principally, put under, special interest, special interests
«Women have often more of what is called good sense then men. They have fewer pretensions; are less implicated in theories; and judge of objects more from their immediate and involuntary impression on the mind, and, therefore, more truly and naturally.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
implicate, implicated, involuntary, sense impression, theories
«There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things -- books, pictures, and the face of nature.»
«One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.»
«Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.»
«Surely, nothing is more simple than Time. His march is straightforward; but we should have leisure allowed us to look back upon the distance we have come, and not be counting his steps every moment.»
«In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent or arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
arrogant, impertinent, predominate, predominates, predominating
«The ballot is only useful as a screen from arbitrary power.»
«Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.»
«We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in his head, a throb of pleasure in his heart, and he will be glad to share it with the first person he meets.»
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