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Never so sure our rapture to create
As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.


William Hazlitt

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No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and ...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Fly Generation

We stand tall, we stand proud, we are the ‘fly’ generation
We thi...
SAAHIL PREM Then most our trouble still when most admired,
And still the more we give, the more required; ALEXANDER POPE I hope that it doesn't stretch all of our assets to the brink.
CHARLES MELANCON I see your pain
as clearly as I feel my own.
I will share your burden
so you feel it...
KAMAND KOJOURI William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling togeth...
TERRY PRATCHETT We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
ERIC HOFFER People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is hard to reconcile (massive corporate profits) when we all know the consumer is pushed to the b...
DIANNE FEINSTEIN The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore....
NEIL GAIMAN One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.

A...
SHERMAN ALEXIE This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we ...
AUDRE LORDE It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhapp...
SIGMUND FREUD We will not say when we will march so as not to show all our cards, but what is sure is that we are ...
MAMADOU BA As wacky and as wild as it has been to this point, we may be on the brink of having the first set of...
JIM NANTZ William Hartnell was one of the finest character actors of our time, and as a fan, I want to make su...
DAVID BRADLEY Are you ready for the rapture of the church
Are you ready for Heaven
Our Lord Jesus Christ...
DORIS IJEOMA BASIL Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?
PATRICK NESS A Litany for Survival

For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon...
AUDRE LORDE O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we...
SIGMUND FREUD There's many a boy here today that looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.

G...
JOHN PODLASKI We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, rec...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Well, why would you create something that had the power to hurt You? Or any of Your creatures? Why d...
LEV GROSSMAN We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life togeth...
YASMINE GALENORN We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU soulsThat we might break these molds
And free our restless souls
Start to believe
Tha...
DAVID GRAY When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart.
When we think, a kind of music is played i...
TOBA BETA At our age the imagination
across the sorry facts
lifts us
to make roses
stan...
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
With the same spirit that its author writ;
Su...
ALEXANDER POPE As soon as we are born
we hide God in ourselves.
We then spend our lives looking for Him<...
KAMAND KOJOURI When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to tr...
KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND Somebody
Give us a story
Narrate all the places
That we’ll never see
Give us a...
CHARLOTTE WESSELS When we are struck at without reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt ...
HELENE HANFF No Difference

Small as a peanut,
Big as a giant,
We're all the same size
W...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never b...
ANNE AUSTIN Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL we never have to hate each other when we disagree.
THEE AMAZING GRACE The sky can never be frozen
because its vastness has chosen
all warmth of our lives as we...
MUNIA KHAN I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organ...
KIERA CASS We wear our lives
Like costumes
Use bills and coins like props
In an over budget pro...
SHANE L. KOYCZAN To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
HONORE DE BALZAC Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance b...
FRANCIS QUARLES Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create o...
ARNOLD NEWMAN If you hate me for who I am,
then hate, you should;
but I hate it when I am being,
m...
AKASH MANDAL When we are old and these rejoicing veins
Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
And out of a...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY What though the field be lost?
All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of reve...
JOHN MILTON We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our...
RANDOLPH SILLIMAN BOURNE We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner val...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We're nothing but human.
The way of life can be free and beautiful.
But we have lost the w...
ANONYMOUS We're all just wandering through the tundra of our existence, assigning value to worthlessness, when...
BLAKE CROUCH Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbors as ourselves: we do unto others as we do u...
ERIC HOFFER As we observe our thoughts, it brings meaning to the experiences and we create our life
ANUPAMA GARG Our job when we come in is to create a spark. When we go in we want to make something happen and cha...
LIZ MCCARRELL I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of...
JIMMY CARTER We meet wonderful people, but lose them
in our busyness.
We’re, as the saying goes, al...
MARY OLIVER We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we ...
DEEPAK CHOPRA We are doing all we can to ensure the public is aware of the test ahead of time so we do not create ...
DAVID LIEBERSBACH I won't telephone him. I'll never telephone him again as long as I live. He'll rot in hell, before I...
DOROTHY PARKER We hate when this kind of thing happens, and we correct it as quickly as we can.
DAVID LAUTER We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
LEIF ENGER since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why w...
TUPAC SHAKUR It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time.
Not as though we...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.
BASIL W. MATURIN We were talking about the space between us all
And the people who hide themselves behind a wall...
GEORGE HARRISON But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth,...
WILL CARLETON So are we lost or do we know
Which direction we should go
Sit around and wait for someone ...
LOST PROPHETS If we were not so single-minded
about keeping our lives moving
and for once could do nothi...
PABLO NERUDA -----LOVE-----
-----HOVE-----
-----HAVE-----
-----HATE-----
Love can turn into h...
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Ignorance, fear, hate: these are our enemies. Deny them with all your might.

-Oromis
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our bor...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR If we could change just one thing in time, what would we change?

WARS, so that we could l...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Let them hate so long as they fear.
(Oderint Dum Metuant)
LUCIUS ACCIUS I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop tho...
AUDRE LORDE Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when ...
TERRY GOODKIND Dangerous as a lightning strike, as lethal as a pair of crisscrossing short swords, William whispere...
GENA SHOWALTER Make sure we keep our focus, make sure we practice hard all week, and sleep well when we do have our...
KAYLA RENGEL A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married t...
ANDREW SEAN GREER There is a desire within each of us,
in the deep center of ourselves
that we call our hea...
GERALD G. MAY It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
MORRISSEY The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER I'm never pleased with a loss. But I sure wasn't displeased with our effort. We were in it all the w...
MATT DAVIDSON The most perplexing form of evil, and especially so for all idealists, is that kind of evil which co...
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON The process was so graceful;
I was lucky to have such a wonderful team. I created the score in...
BILL BROWN With some of the questions we have in our major-league bullpen, we wanted to acquire as much talent ...
DAYTON MOORE We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
JOHN STEINBECK When it comes to reforming the way our skies are regulated, we must be certain that as we work to so...
MIKE POMPEO But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, inste...
JANE AUSTEN

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WILLIAM HAZLITT We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The worst old age is that of the mind.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
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