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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
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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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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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