William Hazlitt
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If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
Rules and models destroy genius and art.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.
The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there's no way that's going to happen while I'm still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you're away from home for long periods. That's not the kind of father I want to be.
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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