The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary they believe what they are paid for --they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left. . .
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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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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
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