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Power is pleasure and pleasure sweetens pain.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Literary Critic
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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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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To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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To die is only to be as we were before we were born yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
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