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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
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When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
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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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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
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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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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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