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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
Category: Adversity Author: William Hazlitt
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It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.
Category: Adversity Author: William Hazlitt Source: Characteristics
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Category: Books and Reading Author: William Hazlitt
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: William Hazlitt
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
Category: Clothing Author: William Hazlitt
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
Category: Confidence Author: William Hazlitt
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When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.
Category: Country Author: William Hazlitt
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: William Hazlitt
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
Category: Friendship Author: William Hazlitt
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No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Category: Greatness Author: William Hazlitt
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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.
Category: Humankind Author: William Hazlitt Source: The English Comic Writers
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
Category: Humility Author: William Hazlitt
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
Category: Hypocrisy Author: William Hazlitt
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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
Category: Jealousy Author: 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.
Category: Perspective Author: William Hazlitt
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We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill.
Category: Philosophical Author: William Hazlitt Source: Characteristics
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Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Category: Poetry Author: William Hazlitt
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Category: Prejudice Author: William Hazlitt
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began.
Category: Water Author: William Hazlitt
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