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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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I am then never less alone than when alone
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The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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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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We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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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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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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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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