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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.
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One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.
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The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
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What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
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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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If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a little uncomfortable, replied, No. There was a fire in the room.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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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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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence and we become misers in this respect.
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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