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William Hazlitt


English
April 10, 1778
Critic
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.


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Tags: Know Anyone Hate
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.


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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.


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Tags: Women Beauty More
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.


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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.


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The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.


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Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.


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Tags: War Peace Who
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.


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Tags: Nature Our See
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.


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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.


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Tags: About Think Never
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.


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Tags: Think Just Feel
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There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.


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Tags: Good You Had
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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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Tags: You More Know
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.


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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.


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Tags: More Than Love
Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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Tags: More Than Love
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
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Tags: About He First
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
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Tags: Like Who Life
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
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Tags: Health Beauty Up