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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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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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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
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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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I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.
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We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Painting gives the object itself poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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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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An honest man is respected by all parties.
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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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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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