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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
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The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
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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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Reflection makes men cowards.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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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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The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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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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