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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Painting gives the object itself poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.
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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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Faith is necessary to victory.
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To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
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If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
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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. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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