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William Hazlitt Quote: “The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Actors are the only honest hypocrites.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “What I mean by living to one’s self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Well I’ve had a happy life.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Love and joy are twins or born of each other.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves – neither more nor less.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Experience makes us wise.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith’s bellows: they take breath but are not alive.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We dread life’s termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy’s sake.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Vice is man’s nature: virtue is a habit – or a mask.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.”
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