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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
Topic: Adversity
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor
goodwill.
Topic: Business
Source: Table Talks (essay XXVII)
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Topic: Cunning
Source: None
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
Topic: Deceit
Source: None
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.
Topic: Disguise
Source: None
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A mighty stream of tendency.
Topic: Evolution
Source: Essay--Why Distant Objects Please
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Topic: Faith
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Fame
Source: None
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Topic: Familiarity
Source: None
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
Topic: Friendship
Source: None
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Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
Topic: Gallantry
Source: None
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Topic: Genius
Source: Table Talk--On Application to Study
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Topic: Grace
Source: None
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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Topic: Grace
Source: None
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He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have
had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- William Hazlitt,
Topic: Greatness
Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
Topic: Greatness
Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Topic: Greatness
Source: Table Talk--Whether Genius is Conscious of its own Power
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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
Topic: Humanity
Source: None
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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 might of been.
Topic: Laughter
Source: None
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Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
Topic: Laziness
Source: None
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
Topic: Leadership
Source: None
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
Topic: Memory
Source: None
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Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
Topic: Modesty
Source: None
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Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
Topic: Monument
Source: None
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He who would see old Hoghton right
Must view it by the pale moonlight.
Topic: Moon
Source: English Proverbs and Provincial Phrases (p. 196)
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
Topic: Morals
Source: None
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
Topic: Observation
Source: None
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
Topic: Pretension
Source: None
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The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors. The first he does not admit of; the last he does not concern himself about.
Topic: Pride
Source: None
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The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
Topic: Public Speaking
Source: None
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To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
Topic: Reason
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Shakespeare
Source: Table Talk--On the Ignorance of the Learned
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One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more
stood upon than any other thing in the world.
- William Hazlitt,
Topic: Shoemaking
Source: Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 86)
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those
persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
Topic: Shoemaking
Source: Table-talk--Essay (22)
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One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession,
another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had
their business at their fingers' ends.
- William Hazlitt,
Topic: Tailors
Source: Shakespeare Jest Books--Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies (no. 93)
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
Topic: Temper
Source: None
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Good temper is an estate for life.
Topic: Temper
Source: None
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
Topic: Tyranny
Source: None
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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
Topic: Vocation
Source: None
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Topic: Wit
Source: Lectures on the English Comic Writers (lecture 1)
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