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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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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
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The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
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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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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!
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It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
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The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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