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Hope is the best possession.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.
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Faith is necessary to victory.
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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Natural affection is a prejudice for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.
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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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The only true retirement is that of the heart the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
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He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
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Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.
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Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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