William Hazlitt Quotes
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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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In love we rarely think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. - Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.
[Love]
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Indeed some degree of affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body; we must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
[Occupation]
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It is a false principle, that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. - The contrary inference is the fair one.
[Egotism]
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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It is essential to the triumph of reform that it shall never succeed.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
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It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play. We uniformly applaud what is right, and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
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It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
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It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
[Friendship]
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
[Learning]
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
[Learning]
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
[Learning]
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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
[Self Acceptance]
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.
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