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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason. If we were obliged to enter into a theoretical deliberation on every occasion before we act, life would be at a stand, and Art would be impracticable.
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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The only true retirement is that of the heart the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
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The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.
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Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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Whatever interests is interesting.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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