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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
Zeal
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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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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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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
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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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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
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