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Quotes by William Hazlitt

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."
By William Hazlitt
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"I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about."
By William Hazlitt
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"The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts."
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"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
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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."
By William Hazlitt
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"Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room."
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"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory."
By William Hazlitt
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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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"To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it."
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"Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance."
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"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."
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"The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have."
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"The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen."
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"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up."
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"If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago."
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"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."
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"Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater."
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"Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mea"
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"Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we we"
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"To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
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"Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good for"
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"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance th"
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"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness i"
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"To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength"
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"The more we do, the more we can do."
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