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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
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Good temper is an estate for life.
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What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.
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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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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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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
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