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Time,--the most independent of all things.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?
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To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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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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A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.
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Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
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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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The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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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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The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.
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The more we do, the more we can do.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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