Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.William Hazlitt
The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.
William Hazlitt
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
William Hazlitt
At the outset of life . . . our imagination has a body to it.
William Hazlitt
A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a great-aunt or uncle, whose existence he has scarcely heard of.
William Hazlitt
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
William Hazlitt
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