The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves, and have neither thoughts nor feelings to impart to them. Give a man a topic in his head, a throb of pleasure in his heart, and he will be glad to share it with the first person he meets.William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
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Actors are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream and the height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. They wear the livery of other men's fortunes their very thoughts are not their own.
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Silence is the one great art of conversation.
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When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.
William Hazlitt
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