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William Hazlitt

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WILLIAM HAZLITT Sometimes the greatest messages come out of the greatest messes.
STEVE MARABOLI I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth...
BIL KEANE Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.
HARSHA BHOGLE Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor alway...
B. R. HAYDEN Children are our greatest natural resource.
HERBERT HOOVER The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTES Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
RICKI LAKE It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of v...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing.
ELLEN DEGENERES The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one someti...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes ...
E. F. SCHUMACHER The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes ...
JAMES BARRIE The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometime...
SIR JAMES M. BARRIE Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.
GUILHERME LEAL He who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in ...
COLIN POWELL We really do believe this is the greatest natural disaster in our history,
BILL CRAWFORD Hurricanes are the greatest single natural catastrophic threat to this state by far.
JACK COLLEY Sometimes going against your own will brings the greatest joy.
ROHAN SINGH NEGI I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.
TRACY MORGAN One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Sometimes the most difficult, horrific things can be the greatest spiritual teachers.
CAMERON MATHISON Sometimes our greatest strength come from our weakness.
LAO TZU The greatest people made the greatest sacrifices, suffered the greatest hardships and made the great...
DIPU AHAD Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.
SCOTTIE PIPPEN Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as...
WALLACE STEGNER Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that...
PRIMO LEVI The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Jack & Bobby ... Sometimes the greatest people can be seated right next to you.
BRAD MELTZER The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest...
ATISA Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.
BRANDON MULL Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest disc...
ALAN ALDA The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greate...
RENE DESCARTES One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest ...
LAO TZU As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must nece...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BENEDICT SPINOZA One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The greatest Emotion is Love.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greates...
PABLO Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed t...
DAVID HUME The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BARUCH SPINOZA Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, w...
JAMES THURBER Sometimes even the greatest joys bring challenge, and children with special needs inspire a very, ve...
SARAH PALIN The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
BOVEE If you are reading this, you have the greatest gift in life. You are alive, so make the most of your...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN If you cannot be a part of the greatest, be the greatest yourself.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination ...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Friends are the greatest labor and the greatest reward
JASON ZEBEHAZY Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.
MAHATMA GANDHI The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my br...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. ...
RICHELLE MEAD Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...
WILLIAM MITFORD Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...
WILLIAM MITFORD It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
TOM BROKAW Why do all of the greatest strengths seem to originate as weaknesses? Maybe because the greatest str...
ROBERT REYNOLDS Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our gr...
JOE MOORE He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the grea...
JOHN RUSKIN The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity.
MICHAEL WICKETT I am the greatest obstacle to my greatest dreams.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH The greatest problem you have is your greatest opportunity
MICHAEL WICKETT I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
DONALD MILLER No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the g...
PLATO Not only is Keith one of the greatest players to play at Warren High, he's becoming one of the great...
GREG COHEN But on a utilitarian level, I realize that to try to accomplish the greatest good for the greatest n...
MOBY Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influe...
HONORé DE BALZAC The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
ABU BAKR For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING What we think to be our greatest weakness can sometimes be our biggest strength.
SARAH J. MAAS The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
J. C. HARE The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE As a writer, I think the greatest danger would be self-censorship.
KATIE KITAMURA The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that t...
MARIA MONTESSORI The first ascent of Everest came at a time when humanity needed relief from two world wars. It was a...
CONRAD ANKER My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And some...
ZACH JOHNSON Sometimes the greatest risk we can take is letting go of what we know and seeking through the unknow...
JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. He was the greatest. He really was great.
ARETHA FRANKLIN This is the greatest feeling in the world. I've been doing this eight years. My first year was our o...
JOE HARPER I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something h...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, t...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO “A single candlelight can illuminate in the greatest darkness. But the greatest darkness can’t d...
EYTAN ROCKAWAY The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer...
THOMAS MERTON The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
DEMOCRITUS Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BUDDHA The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains
DEMOCRITUS The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
TIMOTHY GALLWEY A warrior's greatest enemy can also be his greatest teacher.
TARAN MATHARU The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean ver...
BUD SELIG Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclips...
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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.
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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.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Good temper is an estate for life.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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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.
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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.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
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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.
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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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undese...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The public have neither shame or gratitude.
WILLIAM HAZLITT If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, aff...
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.
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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.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT The busier we are the more leisure we have.
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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 Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and...
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WILLIAM HAZLITT To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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WILLIAM HAZLITT Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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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