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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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The soul of dispatch is decision.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt none out of ten have the inclination.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
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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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Malice often takes the garb of truth.
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It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
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