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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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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
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The more we do, the more we can do the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
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Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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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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Do not quarrel with the world too soon for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
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