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«Words are the only things that last forever»
«The world judge of men by their ability in their professions, and we judge of ourselves by the same test; for it is on that on which our success in life depends»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Judgement,
Profession and professionals,
World
| Keywords:
on that, professions
«Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
deserved, good fortune, ingredients, mixture, undeserved
«Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.»
«The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: The one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.»
«A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
«Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
Anything Else, contempt, for anything, holds, universal
«The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Ambition,
Authority,
Excellence,
Fame
| Keywords:
sanctioned, sanctions
«Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason»
«There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.»
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