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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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[Science is] the desire to know causes.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.
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Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.
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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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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman dignity is proper to noblemen and majesty to kings.
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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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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