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"The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner."
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Poetry and Poets
"If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power."
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Power
"No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he."
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Prejudice
"To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it."
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Reason
"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."
Author:
William Hazlitt
Category:
Superstition
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Temper
"The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture."
Author:
William Hazlitt
Category:
Understanding
"The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything."
Author:
William Hazlitt
Category:
Writers and Writing
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