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Re: ~ William Hazlitt Quotes ~
« Reply #45 on: December 09, 2015, 09:27:56 AM »
A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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« Reply #46 on: December 09, 2015, 09:28:19 AM »
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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« Reply #47 on: December 09, 2015, 09:28:40 AM »
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
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« Reply #48 on: December 09, 2015, 09:29:04 AM »
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
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« Reply #49 on: December 09, 2015, 09:29:33 AM »
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
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« Reply #50 on: December 09, 2015, 09:29:57 AM »
One truth discovered one pang of regret at not being able to express it is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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« Reply #51 on: December 09, 2015, 09:30:18 AM »
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs not only of goodness of heart but of strength of mind.
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« Reply #52 on: December 09, 2015, 09:30:42 AM »
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.
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« Reply #53 on: December 09, 2015, 09:31:04 AM »
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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« Reply #54 on: December 09, 2015, 09:32:49 AM »
The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way: an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.
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« Reply #55 on: December 09, 2015, 09:33:12 AM »
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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« Reply #56 on: December 09, 2015, 09:33:36 AM »
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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« Reply #57 on: December 09, 2015, 09:33:58 AM »
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.
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« Reply #58 on: December 09, 2015, 09:34:34 AM »
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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« Reply #59 on: December 09, 2015, 09:34:59 AM »
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
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