William Hazlitt
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“People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.” -William Hazlitt
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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.” -William Hazlitt
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“To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.” -William Hazlitt
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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” -William Hazlitt
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“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.” -William Hazlitt
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“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!” -William Hazlitt
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“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.” -William Hazlitt
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“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.” -William Hazlitt
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“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.” -William Hazlitt
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“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.” -William Hazlitt
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“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.” -William Hazlitt
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“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.” -William Hazlitt
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“There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.” -William Hazlitt
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“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.” -William Hazlitt
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“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.” -William Hazlitt
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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.” -William Hazlitt
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“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.” -William Hazlitt
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“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!” -William Hazlitt
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“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” -William Hazlitt
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“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.” -William Hazlitt
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“Zeal will do more than knowledge.” -William Hazlitt
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“Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.” -William Hazlitt
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“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.” -William Hazlitt
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“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.” -William Hazlitt
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“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.” -William Hazlitt
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“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!” -William Hazlitt
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“There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.” -William Hazlitt
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“Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.” -William Hazlitt
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“Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.” -William Hazlitt
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“If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.” -William Hazlitt
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“Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.” -William Hazlitt
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“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.” -William Hazlitt
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“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.” -William Hazlitt
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“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.” -William Hazlitt
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“Grace in women has more effect than beauty.” -William Hazlitt
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“The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.” -William Hazlitt
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal. – William Hazlitt
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. – William Hazlitt
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