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"Life can only be live with grace, gratitude and generosity."
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
"That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!"
"It is better to be kind than be impolite."
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
"Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself."
"Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them."
"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
Explore more quotes by William Hazlitt
"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."
"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."
"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice."
"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
"No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."
"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."
"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
"In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates."
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