A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
Success
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Quotes by William Hazlitt
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Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
Wisdom
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Wisdom
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Wisdom
The more we do, the more we can do.
Wisdom
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Love
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
Life
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.
Love
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
Wisdom
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
Life
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
Friendship
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Happiness
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Friendship
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
Life
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Wisdom
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Wisdom
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Wisdom
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!
Love
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Education
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
Friendship
As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Wisdom
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Wisdom
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Wisdom
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
Wisdom
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