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Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
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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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What is popular is not necessarily vulgar and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.
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Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
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Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence and we become misers in this respect.
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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Malice often takes the garb of truth.
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The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
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You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
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While we desire, we do not enjoy and with enjoyment desire ceases.
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