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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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What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
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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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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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