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William Hazlitt Inspirational Quotes (575)

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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
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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.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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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.
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What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.
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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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Books are a world in themselves, it is true but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
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The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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