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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
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Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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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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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
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We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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