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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Written by William Hazlitt
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.
Written by William Hazlitt
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
Written by William Hazlitt
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Written by William Hazlitt
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Written by William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Written by William Hazlitt
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Written by William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Written by William Hazlitt
To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
Written by William Hazlitt
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Written by William Hazlitt
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
Written by William Hazlitt
That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
Written by William Hazlitt
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.
Written by William Hazlitt
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
Written by William Hazlitt
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
Written by William Hazlitt
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Written by William Hazlitt
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.
Written by William Hazlitt
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Written by William Hazlitt
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Written by William Hazlitt
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Written by William Hazlitt
If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
Written by William Hazlitt
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
Written by William Hazlitt
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
Written by William Hazlitt
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
Written by William Hazlitt
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.
Written by William Hazlitt
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Written by William Hazlitt
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
Written by William Hazlitt
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Written by William Hazlitt
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Written by William Hazlitt
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Written by William Hazlitt

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