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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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We go on a journey to be free of all impediments to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.
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From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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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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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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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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Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.
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We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.
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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
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