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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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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. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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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. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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