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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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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
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In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.
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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
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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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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
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Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality keep pace with their good fortune. Envy no one, and you need envy no one.
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Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.
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The more you do, the more you can do.
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