Quote by William Hazlitt
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

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

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Success
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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Oceans
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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Imagination
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them. – James Russell Lowell

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work

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake. – Simon Mainwaring

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work

The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts peoples lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. – Hillary Clinton

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work

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, theyre not the enemy. Theyre the people that hire you. Theyre the people that are going to give you a job. – Rush Limbaugh

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work

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