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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
William Hazlitt
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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.
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Good temper is an estate for life.
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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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Silence is one great art of conversation.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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