Tag: William Hazlitt

Man is a make-believe animal – he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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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.

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Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

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No really great man ever thought himself so.

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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern — why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be

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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

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Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.

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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

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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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The more we do, the more we can do.

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