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There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. I count only the hours that are serene..

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
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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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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
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We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
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Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident wit is the product of art and fancy.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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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 are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.
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It is well there is no one without fault for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.
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It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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