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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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We are governed by sympathy and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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The more you do, the more you can do.
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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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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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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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