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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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Everything
Vibrating
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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
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