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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
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The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
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The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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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 great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them
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Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
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