There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
From William Hazlitt
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.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
The more we do, the more we can do.
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
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.
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