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William Hazlitt Inspirational Quotes (575)

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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
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