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William Hazlitt

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WILLIAM HAZLITT One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: b...
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 It has been only three years, but after all that has happened it seems like a lifetime.
MICKY ADAMS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular,...
WOLE SOYINKA It was the front porch approach. For most of the songs, we were all playing all the time, as opposed...
BRUCE ROPER All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to org...
BILL MARIS Amanda has been doing excellently. Sometimes, she's a little too unselfish, but she's been stepping ...
JAMES GREER The average person has eight different jobs over the course of their lifetime. You get a little ants...
SETH MACFARLANE The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be un...
JODI PICOULT Sam is there, Sam has been playing well, he has been doing great in camp.
LATRELL SPREWELL Nowhere else in the developed world has seen the growth California has, and the Delta has been at th...
HANS JOHNSON Todd has been playing with a lot more energy the last month of the season. He's been doing it at bot...
BRIAN BARBER I believe in doing charity loving everyone caring about the World and all that crap. But a flash of ...
RAYAN BLACK I've lived that lifetime of doing it and regretting it. But not at all now. It was, what? Thirty yea...
BOBBY VALENTINE All computers expect to be yelled at. There's not a single computer in the whole world that hasn't b...
TOM HOLT Jamison has really been tearing it up. He has been rebounding and passing well and doing a heck of a...
BEN BORRIES The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else rema...
JOSIAH ROYCE Playing for your mother has its ups and downs. It's hard at times. But she's a great coach. I wanted...
AMY HEFFNER To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody els...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else...
EE CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else...
EE CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody el...
CUMMINGS Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep tryin...
ERIC SAN Pretty much anything William Shatner is in is great. He's great at playing that 'I'm the...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play...
AARON YOO To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world,...
FERNANDO ALONSO I guess the world isn't as bad as we're brought up to believe it is. Maybe all we're doing is spread...
JON BON JOVI Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel....
E.E. CUMMINGS All the honey a bee gathers during its lifetime doesn't sweeten its sting
ITALIAN PROVERB Gary is doing a good job. He is playing physical underneath, getting good looks at the basket and co...
MATT KIEFER The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Part of the church's opposition might have been its pagan connotations. All along, the church has be...
MARTHA J. EGAN This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or s...
DYLAN THOMAS There are many dreams I've been thinking about, but not all may happen. But I believe God can make a...
JAIME PENZELLNA Chief Justice (William) Rehnquist was brilliant at enhancing that position, and Congress has played ...
JUDITH RESNIK It seems that Lorraine Greene has made more of a start at getting things done than anyone else. She ...
EDWARD SULLIVAN To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you l...
E.E. CUMMINGS (Myrick) is something else and he?s been doing that all year.
GARFIELD YUILLE I do believe the matter has been concluded, but that's really all I can say.
DAVID JOHNSON While you're sitting there wondering why you've kept all the rules and you still haven't achieved ev...
DAN PEARCE Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions,...
SAMANTHA POWER He's not humble at all. He talks so much trash. He's been calling my phone. If he's not calling, he'...
ALLEN HUDDLESTON The kids are a little disappointed. They have been playing 'what if?' all day.
TOM MORGAN We know every game is big at this point. But we've been playing well in practice this week and our c...
LOUIS AMUNDSON When men and women who God has created to make a difference in the world, abandon the mandate for th...
SUNDAY ADELAJA This little guy means the world to me. I want to make sure he has all the available resources in Kno...
AMY WEBB Believe in the magic that's in you, its potential, what it can achieve. But most of all believe in y...
CHARLENE A. WILSON Excuses are most valuable to the person making them but to everyone else its foreign currency with l...
DONAVAN NELSON BUTLER, MASTER SERGEANT US ARMY Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. ...
MICHELE BACHMANN This has been such an adventure. It's been the trip of a lifetime.
EVELYN THOMPSON Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
BOB EHRLICH The surrounding environment is the best erudite master to teach us fundamentals laws of nature and b...
ANUJ SOMANY This is the greatest feeling in the world. I've been doing this eight years. My first year was our o...
JOE HARPER We're at home for a few weeks now. Seems like we've been playing everywhere else for forever.
KYLE MAGNUSSON I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
PAUL OAKENFOLD Federated had two good years in 1998 and 1999, but before that its performance was middling at best,...
BRIDGET HUGHES The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happines...
CHARLIE EBERSOL The Bible has us believe the world will end at any moment.
JAMES DYE Ever since I've been 16, 15, that's all I've been doing: playing darts.
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MICHAEL ALMEREYDA We only lost five. But they had been playing together since they were freshmen. We're still working ...
RICK THOMPSON Dolphins football has been a lifetime passion for me.
WAYNE HUIZENGA We have to engage the world because for us we're either playing globally or not playing at all.
IRWIN JACOBS Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.
SUNG KANG We've been playing well in the east. We've been playing this way the last little while.
JOE THORNTON Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
FRANK SINATRA You start out life with a clean slate.Then you begin to make your mark. You face decisions,make choi...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Lying is a cooperative act. Think about it. A lie has no power whatsoever by its mere utterance. Its...
PAMELA MEYER She has been the person keeping the Boy Choir alive ... apart from the fundraising the boys have bee...
CARLSON MUN At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON We don't tell anyone the darker side of things. We've been through all the breakups and addictions a...
CHRIS MARTIN Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and ...
GRAHAM MCTAVISH Time is always moving and as it moves day night, night day the motion of time is clear, to many peop...
GARY F EVANS... The events that happen in our lives make us who we are ,we can either give in to them and let them w...
GARY F EVANS... Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
BOB KANE The OCSD has been chipping away at our freedoms for most of our lives, all in the name of safety. Bu...
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MIKE SCIOSCIA I wasn't playing that well and I may have been a little scared in the beginning. But then I wanted t...
GINA SUAREZ Piracy in all its forms has been the major factor in this reversal but not the only factor.
ERIC NICOLI You just have to give Dallas the credit. They have a good team. They have been playing well this sea...
JALEN ROSE At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I believe the Athletes Commission has an important role at this moment. We need to protect the image...
ALBERTO JUANTORENA Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experien...
STEVE JOBS I'll give it my best shot, but if I don't make it, I'll keep playing hard. This has been a good expe...
RAY SADLER I enjoy playing against India. It has always been good doing battle against India, it brings the bes...
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best a...
WILLIAM HAZLITT A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer -- that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was prin...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot for...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinki...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shake...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty prid...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the di...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we ...
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 ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are re...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the small...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the d...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The busier we are the more leisure we have.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our...
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocri...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal...
WILLIAM HAZLITT People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because the...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
WILLIAM HAZLITT A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Comedy naturally wears itself out -- destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotio...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Zeal will do more than knowledge.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about
WILLIAM HAZLITT To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to f...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
WILLIAM HAZLITT We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have kn...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religi...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who as...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habit...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because th...
WILLIAM HAZLITT Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul
WILLIAM HAZLITT Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion ...
WILLIAM HAZLITT The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
WILLIAM HAZLITT Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indee...
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.
WILLIAM HAZLITT I like a friend better for having faults that one can talk about.
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...
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