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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
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It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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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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Do not quarrel with the world too soon for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
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In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Habit is necessary to give power.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
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Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
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The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
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True friendship is self-love at second hand where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an impartial and faithful witness.
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The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.
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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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