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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.
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There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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It is the pang of parting, the unloosing our grasp, the breaking asunder some strong tie, the leaving some cherished purpose unfulfilled, that creates the repugnance to go
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The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.
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Even in the same family the gap is not so great; the wound closes up sooner than we should expect.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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It asks a troublesome effort to ensure the admiration of others: it is a still greater one to be satisfied with one's own thoughts.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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Most of the friends I have seen have turned out the bitterest enemies, or cold, uncomfortable acquaintance.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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Old companions are like meats served up too often, that lose their relish and their wholesomeness.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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When he undertakes to play a part on the stage, and to persuade the world to think more about him than they do about themselves, he is got into a track where he will find nothing but briars and thorns, vexation and disappointment.
William Hazlittverified·On Living to One's-Self, in Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners·January 1821
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases.
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Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.
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There is then no sympathy, but an uneasy craving after it, and a dissatisfaction which pursues you on the way, and in the end probably produces ill-humour.
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Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.
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Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.
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There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.