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William Hazlitt

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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.


— 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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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.


— William Hazlitt


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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.


— William Hazlitt


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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.


— William Hazlitt


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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.


— William Hazlitt


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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.


— William Hazlitt


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If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.


— William Hazlitt


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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.


— William Hazlitt


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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.


— William Hazlitt


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Edited by P. Together with some newly written and one brought in from the "Table-Talk" series they were collected in book form in 1825 as The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits. One or two positive reviews appeared such as the one in the Globe 7 June 1823: "The Liber Amoris is unique in the English language; and as possibly the first book in its fervour its vehemency and its careless exposure of passion and weakness—of sentiments and sensations which the common race of mankind seek most studiously to mystify or conceal—that exhibits a portion of the most distinguishing characteristics of Rousseau it ought to be generally praised".

Yet his work is currently little read and mostly out of print. He is now considered one of the great critics and essayists of the English language placed in the company of Samuel Johnson and George Orwell.

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