English - Critic | April 10, 1778 - September 18, 1830
Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
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The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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