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William Hazlitt has 516 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
— Johnny Bench
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I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.
— Sparky Anderson
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw…
— Maya Angelou
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The only job worse is a javelin catcher at a track - and - field meet.
— Gump Worsley
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Maintaining concentration depends on what I call tunnel vision; nothing else in the world exists but the catcher's target, the hitter and…
— Nolan Ryan
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em.
— Casey Stengel
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Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being…
— Judd Nelson
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Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls.…
— Mike Piazza
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I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If…
— Pete Rose
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I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher…
— J D Salinger
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Its nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it…
— Tim Wakefield
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If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave…
— Bob Feller
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