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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
William Hazlitt -
The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
William Hazlitt -
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
William Hazlitt
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt -
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
William Hazlitt -
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.
William Hazlitt -
Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
William Hazlitt -
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
William Hazlitt
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To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
William Hazlitt -
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
William Hazlitt -
Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
William Hazlitt -
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
William Hazlitt