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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Painter
Philosopher
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
Dignity
Littleness
Shrinks
Greatness

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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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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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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
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Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?
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Painting gives the object itself poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
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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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We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
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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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