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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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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
- William Hazlitt
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#Than
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- 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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#Knowledge
#Wisdom
#Wrong
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
- William Hazlitt
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#Greatness
#History
#Man
#Page
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
- William Hazlitt
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The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
- William Hazlitt
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#Myself
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
- William Hazlitt
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#Wish
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
- William Hazlitt
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#Love
#Mind
#Strength
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
- William Hazlitt
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- William Hazlitt
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#Meet
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#Reception
#Us
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- William Hazlitt
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#Ignorance
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- William Hazlitt
#Friendship
#Happiness
#Life
#Love
#Trust
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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#Man
#Travel
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
- 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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#Man
#Offence
#Order
#Though
#Truth
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
- 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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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- William Hazlitt
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The more we do, the more we can do.
- William Hazlitt
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#Motivational
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
- William Hazlitt
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#Hypocrisy
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#Repentance
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
- William Hazlitt
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#Never
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#Will
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
- William Hazlitt
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#Wit
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
- William Hazlitt
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#Effect
#Grace
#More
#Than
#Women
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
- William Hazlitt
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#Fire
#Health
#Look
#Positive
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
- William Hazlitt
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#Destroy
#Genius
#Models
#Rules
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
- William Hazlitt
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#Indifference
#Love
#Turns
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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#More
#Road
#Travel
#World
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
- William Hazlitt
#Adversity
#Great
#Prosperity
#Teacher
A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- William Hazlitt
#Gentle
#Look
#Miracles
#Smile
#Work
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
- William Hazlitt
#Life
#Poetry
#Remembering
#Worth
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
- William Hazlitt
#Others
#Peace
#Those
#War
#Who
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
- William Hazlitt
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#Love
#Others
#Ourselves
#Power
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- William Hazlitt
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#Endure
#Enjoy
#Know
#Life
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