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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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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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Books wind into the heart.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.
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Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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