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" Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. "
William Hazlitt
Pride
Living
Great
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" A hair in the head is worth two in the brush. "
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" 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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" 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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" The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. "
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" Learning is its own exceeding great reward. "
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" I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. "
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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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" A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. "
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" No young man ever thinks he shall die. "
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" 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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" The public have neither shame or gratitude. "
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Neither
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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. "
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Gone
Friendship
" Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. "
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" Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. "
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Friends
Us
Ready
" He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. "
William Hazlitt
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Afraid
True
" It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. "
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Able
Than
" Reflection makes men cowards. "
William Hazlitt
Men
Reflection
Makes
" To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous. "
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Ridiculous
Virtue
" Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. "
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Thoughts
Practice
" There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. "
William Hazlitt
Left
Love
Friendship
" Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. "
William Hazlitt
Joke
Generally
Sure
" Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. "
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Us
Souls
" The most learned are often the most narrow minded. "
William Hazlitt
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Most
Minded
" Grace in women has more effect than beauty. "
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Grace
More
Effect
" We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. "
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See
Our
" The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. "
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Enjoy
Endure
Little
" The more we do, the more we can do. "
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" The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. "
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" We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. "
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Well
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" The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature. "
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