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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken
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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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Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.
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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey but I like to go by myself.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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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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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.
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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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Those who can command themselves command others.
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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