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William Hazlitt

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G.K. CHESTERTON A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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LEIGH WINCHELL It is a lie.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT That's a first line many have heard, whether or not they've read the book.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes i...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Lest he should wander irretrievably from the right path, he stands still.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a so...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If you think you can win, you can. Faith is necessary to victory.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for -- they swear to that...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
WILLIAM HAZLITT No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an ine...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books a...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who can command themselves command others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Good temper is an estate for life.
WILLIAM HAZLITT They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
WILLIAM HAZLITT They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devot...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The essence of poetry is will and passion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-int...
WILLIAM HAZLITT We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a foo...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the me...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Life is the art of being well deceived.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
WILLIAM HAZLITT The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride ...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
WILLIAM HAZLITT No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of histor...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He wh...
WILLIAM HAZLITT No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The busier we are the more leisure we have.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal -- he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT A mighty stream of tendency.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your per...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudice...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merel...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Reflection makes men cowards.
WILLIAM HAZLITT You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the wo...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can pa...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocris...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imaginati...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or to...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who are fond of settling things to rights have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I would like to spend my whole life traveling, if I could borrow another life to spend at home.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of mil...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their da...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an ind...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The worst old age is that of the mind.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must see...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the ins...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another...
WILLIAM HAZLITT He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those only deserve a monument who do not need one
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them
WILLIAM HAZLITT A person may be indebted for a nose or an eye, for a graceful carriage or a voluble discourse, to a ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a t...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who from a constant change and dissipation of outward objects have not a moment's leisure left...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have
WILLIAM HAZLITT One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.
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