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Well I've had a happy life.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
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It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
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He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
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Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence and we become misers in this respect.
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