William Hazlitt Quotes
Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
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The FCC does not have performance goals or measures to assess the specific impact of the fund or to improve the management of the program.
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
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There's a dilemma over how to balance concrete economic interests with critical opinions on the state of human rights. It's the human rights that suffer, and that's a great price to pay.
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<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.
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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
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So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
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One of the most constant aspects of American life is change - and nowhere is it more evident than in our financial markets.
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But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.
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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
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A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.
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It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
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Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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I have miles to go before I sleep...
