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

Quote by William Hazlitt

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Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old : that...

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate...

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate...

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it...

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it...

Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which...

Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which...

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of...

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of...

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their...

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their...

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures...

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a...

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a...

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

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

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