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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
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Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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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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The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first idle rumour, lest it should be behindhand in its judgment, and echoes it till it is deafened with the sound of its own voice.
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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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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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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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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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