Monday, January 19, 2015

Daily Dose

From The Essays of William Hazlitt, selected and edited by Frank Carr

THE ENERGY

"The energy we exert, or the high state of enjoyment we feel, puts us out of conceit with ourselves at other times; compared to what we are in the act of composition, we seem dull, commonplace people, generally speaking; and what we have been able to perform is rather matter of wonder than of self-congratulation to us."

From Whether Genius Is Conscious of Its Powers?

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