He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
¶ "Characteristics"
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William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
¶ "On the Love of Life" (1815)
The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.
¶ (Attributed)
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
¶ (Attributed)
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
¶ (Attributed)
Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing ... are not to be trusted with the management of any great question.
¶ (Attributed)
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than … an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
¶ (Attributed)
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
¶ Characteristics (1823)
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretences to both.
¶ The Round Table, ch. 32 "On Religious Hypocrisy" (1817)
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