William Hazlitt

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"Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune."	Anger, Death, Evil
"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"	Age, Friends, Happiness
"First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily."	Death, Honesty, Life
"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."	Books, Intentions, Reading
"If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators."	Genius, Hope, Knowledge
"If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory."	Faith
"Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."	Art, Lies, Men
"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."	Humor, Laughter, Men
"No really great man ever thought himself so."	Excellence, Men
"Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not; this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?"	Beginnings, Death, Fear
"Prejudice is the child of ignorance."	Ignorance
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."	Adversity, Difficulty, Education
"The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires."	Ambition, Beauty, Desires
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."	Freedom, Liberty, Love
"The more we do, the more we can do."	Miscellaneous
"There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable."	Ability, Honesty, Truth
"Those who can command themselves command others."	Men
"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."	Ability, Art, Evil
"To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."	Hope, Knowledge, Men
"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love."	Art, Choice, Excellence

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Ability	Adversity	Age
Ambition	Anger	Art
Beauty	Beginnings	Books
Choice	Death	Desires
Difficulty	Education	Evil
Excellence	Faith	Fear
Freedom	Friends	Genius
Good	Greatness	Happiness
Honesty	Hope	Humor
Ignorance	Intentions	Joy
Justice	Knowledge	Laughter
Learning	Liberty	Lies
Life	Love	Men
Miscellaneous	Nature	Power
Reading	School	Strength
Teaching	Time	Truth
Virtue	Wants	Wisdom
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