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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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The more we do, the more we can do the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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Mankind are a herd of knaves and fools. It is necessary to join the crowd, or get out of their way, in order not to be trampled to death by them.
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Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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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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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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