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Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
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The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
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The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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Love may turn to indifference with possession.
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
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