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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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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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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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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
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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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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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Do not quarrel with the world too soon for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
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