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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Life

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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
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Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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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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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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