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“Those who can command themselves, command others.”

William Hazlitt

No. 407
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.”

William Hazlitt

No. 43
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

People , Sincerity

“We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.”

William Hazlitt

No. 364
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

Courage , Thinking , Effort

“Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.”

William Hazlitt

"On the Knowledge of Character"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

“We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. … If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.”

William Hazlitt

"On Criticism"
Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/TableHazIV.htm (1821-1822)

Men , Books , World , Beauty

“We are very much what others think of us.”

William Hazlitt

The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
No. 364
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

Thinking