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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
William Hazlitt
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It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.
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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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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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Learning is its own exceeding great reward and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
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A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.
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Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
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Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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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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To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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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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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
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