Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.
Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!
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Michael Bassey Johnson
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that...
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Jacques Charles
Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
More Quotes By William Hazlitt
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with...
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
The old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life-- Impudence! Impudence! Impudence!
The path of genius is free, and its own
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our
