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Doe Quotes by William Hazlitt
- He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
- A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
- An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.
- Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected…
- If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
- When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress…
- People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself…
- Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
- The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
- I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done,…
- Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
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