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There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it…
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A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a…
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Reflection makes men cowards.
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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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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and…
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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
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I heard a rumor I died, Murdered in cold blood dramatized, Pictures of me in my final state, You know mama cried,…
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The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while…
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No coward soul is mine.
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Good order makes men bold, and confusion, cowards.
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No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed.
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