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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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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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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
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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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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
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He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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Books are a world in themselves, it is true but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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