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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
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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.
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There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass no day without a line-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
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Books wind into the heart.
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