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The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.
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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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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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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence and we become misers in this respect.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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Natural affection is a prejudice for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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