We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

Quote by William Hazlitt

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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than...

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than...

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

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

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

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born...

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born...

Those who can command themselves command others.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope....

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope....

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may...

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may...

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe...

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe...

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of...

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of...

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one...

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one...

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...

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day,...

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day,...

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.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

Genius, like humanity, rusts for the want of use

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is...

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is...

Principle is a passion for truth

Principle is a passion for truth

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

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

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better,...

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better,...

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing...

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing...