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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. William Hazlitt
Good Temper Features Greatest
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. William Hazlitt
Life Success Judge World Men Our Ourselves Ability Test Same Depends Which Profession
The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings. William Hazlitt
Destruction Pain Our Finger More Gives Smallest Fellow Concern Than Little Us Beings Millions
The incentive to ambition is the love of power. William Hazlitt
Love Power Ambition Incentive
We must be doing something to be happy. William Hazlitt
Be Happy Happy Must Something Doing
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. William Hazlitt
Life Home My Life Spend Would Borrow Could Like Another Anywhere If I Could Whole Traveling
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. William Hazlitt
Wisdom Knowledge Heart Judge Head Wrong Feel Sure Seat Right
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. William Hazlitt
Truth Truth Is Better Few Think Our Please Ourselves Entertain More Piece Friends Than Deceive Few Things Esteem Which Little Them Us Profess Displease Things
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. William Hazlitt
Best Nature Scholar Scholars True Painter Humblest
Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world. William Hazlitt
World Every Christianity Almost Accommodate Essence Prejudices Perversion
Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. William Hazlitt
Wish Our Everything Except Generally Ready Friends Very Them Us Thing
No young man ever thinks he shall die. William Hazlitt
Man Young Shall He Die Young Man Ever Thinks
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! William Hazlitt
Happiness Life Love Friendship Trust Marriage Others Our Security How Affairs Hands Common Little Even
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. William Hazlitt
Wisdom Wish Think Virtue Highest Perhaps Them Mankind Ill
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. William Hazlitt
Aid Way Find Able Without Custom Room Prejudice Should Across
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. William Hazlitt
Love Friendship Myself Fool Hate World Enough Despise Despised Indeed Hated Having Chiefly Dupe Reason
Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy. William Warburton
Man Another Orthodoxy
I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!' bell hooks
Smile Me You Mother Everyone Please Says Take Outside Like House Always Been Walked Child Just Stand Used Who Flirt
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children. bell hooks
Life People Think Life Experiences Know Children Different Want Experiences Who
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. bell hooks
Art Grace Living Simply Environment Feel Reflects Elegance Belief
Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope. bell hooks
Hope You Change People Once Static See Entities Idea Fixed Then Away
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism. bell hooks
Struggle Women Better Cancer Care Face Feminism Than Whenever Breast Cancer Ever
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities. bell hooks
Love Family Critique Even
You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change. bell hooks
You Change People Live Enormous Once Only Excess Simply Want Social Social Change Realize Hardly
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. bell hooks
Wisdom Spiritual Experience World Path Important Islam About Part Buddhism Talked Important Part First-Hand Teachers Many Enlightenment
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love. bell hooks
Love Time People Black Our Our Lives Tell Fraught General No Time Mass Mass Media Loving To Love Us Aggression Media Lives Violence
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