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I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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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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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?
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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
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