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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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Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
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Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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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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I am proud up to the point of equality everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
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Elegance is something more than ease it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.
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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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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. I count only the hours that are serene..
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
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