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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.
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A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
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Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
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I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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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 greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of 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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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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