William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a...

Prosperity is a...

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

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-- William Hazlitt,...

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Silence is the...

Silence is the...

Silence is the one great art of conversation.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Political truth is...

Political truth is...

Political truth is a libel - religious truth, blasphemy.

Source: ``Commonplaces,''...

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No one ever...

No one ever...

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

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Prosperity is a...

Prosperity is a...

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens...

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Rules and models...

Rules and models...

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Source: On Taste.
-- William Hazlitt,...

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The best part...

The best part...

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Source: In...

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Sincerity has to...

Sincerity has to...

Sincerity has to do with the connect between our words and thoughts, and not between our belief and...

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One shining quality...

One shining quality...

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

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Satirists gain the...

Satirists gain the...

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

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The characteristic of...

The characteristic of...

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare...

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The busier we...

The busier we...

The busier we are the more leisure we have.

Source: In

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So have I...

So have I...

So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on...

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Our energy is...

Our energy is...

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

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The art of...

The art of...

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.

Source: In...

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The dupe of...

The dupe of...

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and...

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The essence of...

The essence of...

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

Source: In

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Taste is nothing...

Taste is nothing...

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of...

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Some persons make...

Some persons make...

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Source: In

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The art of...

The art of...

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

Source: The Round Table, vol. 1, On...

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