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We must be doing something to be happy.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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I am then never less alone than when alone
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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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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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Experience makes us wise.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
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Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
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A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
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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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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
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People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.
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