Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never i… - William Hazlitt

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Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 – 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism. He is sometimes esteemed the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson.

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Alternative Names: Wm. Haslett • William Carew Hazlitt

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We grow tired of every thing but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain! - William Hazlitt

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