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William Hazlitt Inspirational Quotes (575)

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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
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Elegance is something more than ease it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
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What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.
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Experience makes us wise.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
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Habit is necessary to give power.
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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