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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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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
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He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
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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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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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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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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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Political truth is libel religious truth, blasphemy.
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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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Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
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Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.
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