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Habit in most cases hardens an...

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Habit is necessary to give pow...

Habit is necessary to give power.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The chain of habit coils itsel...

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

The imagination is of so delic...

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Literature, like nobility, run...

Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Lying is the strongest acknowl...

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Our opinions are not our own, ...

Our opinions are not our own, but in the power of sympathy. If a person tells us a palpable falsehood, we not only dare not contradict him, but we dare hardly disbelieve him to his face. A lie boldly uttered has the effect of truth for the instant.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Popularity disarms envy in wel...

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Want of principle is power. Tr...

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Reflection brakes men cowards....

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

We grow tired of ourselves, mu...

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

A great man la an abstraction ...

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Every man, in judging of himse...

Every man, in judging of himself, is his own contemporary. He may feel the gale of popularity, but he cannot tell how long it will last. His opinion of himself wants distance, wants time, wants numbers, to set it off and confirm it.

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Every man depends on the quant...

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

William Hazlitt 833 quotes

Any one may mouth out a passag...

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

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To write a genuine familiar or...

To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

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Talent is the capacity of doin...

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

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Time,--the most independent of...

Time,--the most independent of all things.

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A distinction has been made be...

A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.

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The vain man makes a merit of ...

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....