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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
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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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Envy is littleness of soul.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
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