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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass no day without a line-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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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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The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.
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The more we do, the more we can do.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Well I've had a happy life.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
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