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William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
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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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Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
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The only true retirement is that of the heart the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.
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Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.
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The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
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The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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An honest man is respected by all parties.
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Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.
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Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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