...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into i…

William Hazlitt
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. ✨ William Hazlitt (2015). Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated), p.1107, Delphi Classics
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An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. ✨ William Hazlitt (1845). Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where we may fancy our opinion of ourselves confirmed by an … ▶
Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others. ✨ William Hazlitt (1852). Men and ma … ▶
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion. ✨ William Hazlitt (1822). Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters, p.276
The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up. ✨ William Hazlitt (1852). Men and manners: sketches and essays, p.37

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. ✨ William Hazlitt (2015). Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated), p.1107, Delphi Classics

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