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


William Hazlitt

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Water flows because it's willing.
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Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
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Don't resist life, flow with it.
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
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Everything has it's own time and place, Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow.
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Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
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Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
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No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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Those who can command themselves command others.
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
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Good temper is an estate for life.
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They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot...
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-int...
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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Life is the art of being well deceived.
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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
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I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
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The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or to...
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of mil...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The worst old age is that of the mind.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT
A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
WILLIAM HAZLITT