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Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. ↗

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

— William Hazlitt

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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter. ↗

— 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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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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