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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.

~William Hazlitt

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The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

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Rules and models destroy genius and art.

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The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

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Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Critic

Born: April 10th, 1778

Died: September 18th, 1830

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