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The more you do, the more you can do.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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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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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
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Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
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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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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
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