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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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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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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
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The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
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We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
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