We must be doing something to be happy.
From William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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