Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
-- William Hazlitt
Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.
-- William Hazlitt
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
-- William Hazlitt
The love of liberty is the love of others, the love of power is the love of ourselves.
-- William Hazlitt
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
-- William Hazlitt
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of the universe; so that he is torn in pieces between the two, without a possibility of it ever being otherwise.
-- William Hazlitt
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
-- William Hazlitt
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
-- William Hazlitt
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