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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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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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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
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Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.
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Experience makes us wise.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense a substitute for true knowledge.
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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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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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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.
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Features alone do not run in the blood vices and virtues, genius and folly, are transmitted through the same sure but unseen channel.
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Rules and models destroy genius and art.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.
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Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
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