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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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" 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. "

William Hazlitt

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" No truly great person ever thought themselves so. "

" A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. "

" Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. "

" The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. "

" The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. "

" Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. "

" Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. "

" Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. "

" The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. "

" Reflection makes men cowards. "

" We are not hypocrites in our sleep. "

" It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. "

" To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. "

" There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love. "

" The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. "

" The incentive to ambition is the love of power. "

" 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. "

" Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. "

" The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. "

" I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. "

" Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. "

" The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. "

" Dandyism is a variety of genius. "

William Hazlitt

Variety

Genius

" There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. "

" We must be doing something to be happy. "

" The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. "

" 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. "

" Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them. "

" The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. "