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William Hazlitt
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“I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.”
— William Hazlitt
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“The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.”
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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
— William Hazlitt
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“The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
— William Hazlitt
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“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
— William Hazlitt
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“If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.”
— William Hazlitt
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“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.”
— William Hazlitt
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“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”
— William Hazlitt
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“The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.”
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“Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
— William Hazlitt
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“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”
— William Hazlitt
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“Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.”
— William Hazlitt
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“The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
— William Hazlitt
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“The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”
— William Hazlitt
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“There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.”
— William Hazlitt
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“A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.”
— William Hazlitt
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“There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.”
— William Hazlitt
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“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
— William Hazlitt
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“The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.”
— William Hazlitt
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“Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.”
— William Hazlitt
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“It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.”
— William Hazlitt
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“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
— William Hazlitt
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“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.”
— William Hazlitt
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“There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.”
— William Hazlitt
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“An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may.”
— William Hazlitt
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