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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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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 best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.
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When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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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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It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.
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He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
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Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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