Quote by William Hazlitt
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet. – William Hazlitt

Other quotes by William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. – William Hazlitt

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Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt

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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

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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant. – Elvis Costello

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde

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