William Hazlitt Quotes
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
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Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Man is a poetical animal and delights in fiction.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
[Acceptance]
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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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Many persons in reasoning on the passions, make a continual appeal to commonsense. But passion is without commonsense, and we must frequently discard the one in speaking of the other.
[Passion]
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
[Modesty]
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
[Prejudice]
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No young man ever thinks he shall die.
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None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.
[Hope]
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None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
[Lighten Up]
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as detecting another in an untruth.-It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
[Falsehood]
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Of all persecutions, that of calumny is the most intolerable. Any other kind of persecution can affect our outward circumstances only, our properties, our lives; but this may affect our characters forever.
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Of all virtues magnanimity is the rarest; there are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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