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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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Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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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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Envy is littleness of soul.
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Principle is a passion for truth.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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