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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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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
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Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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Principle is a passion for truth.
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