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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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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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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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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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We are governed by sympathy and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
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A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
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I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
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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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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
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Malice often takes the garb of truth.
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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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Books are a world in themselves, it is true but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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