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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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William Carew Hazlitt
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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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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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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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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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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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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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, No. There was a fire in the room.
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We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
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