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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?


William Hazlitt

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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...
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