William Hazlitt Quotes
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
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Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask.
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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For myself I don't like the geisha look. It's like a mask.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I grew up on WWE. Eddie Guerrero is my everything. He's my hero, as are Shawn Michaels and Tiger Mask. I tried to model myself after them.
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life.
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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm.
