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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
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Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?
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It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
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There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.
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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
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To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
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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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The soul of dispatch is decision.
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Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of its ever being otherwise.
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The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.
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When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
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What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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