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Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
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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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Painting gives the object itself poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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We are governed by sympathy and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.
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Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.
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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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Love may turn to indifference with possession.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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Words are the only things that last for ever.
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In what we really understand, we reason but little.
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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