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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.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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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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Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.
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The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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Well I've had a happy life.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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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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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
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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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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.
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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to await our future lot.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
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