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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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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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Well I've had a happy life.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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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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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
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It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
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