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We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
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While we desire, we do not enjoy and with enjoyment desire ceases.
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Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
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Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
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Envy is littleness of soul.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
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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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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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Dandyism is a variety of genius.
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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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Love may turn to indifference with possession.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men.
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Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite away. Nothing can destroy the human heart.
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