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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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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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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
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The more we do, the more we can do.
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
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Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
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Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
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A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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The worst old age is that of the mind.
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