The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt Quotations
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To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.
...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
The more we do, the more we can do.
I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
Prejudice is the Child of Ignorance.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
No really great man ever thought himself so.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
Those who can command themselves command others.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.