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William Hazlitt Quote: “No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Habit is necessary to give power.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant – without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others – and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for – they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We do not attend to the advice of the sage and experienced because we think they are old, forgetting that they once were young and placed in the same situations as ourselves.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people’s virtues.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “The youth is better than the old age of friendship.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Keep your misfortunes to yourself.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “A thought must tell at once, or not at all.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.”
William Hazlitt Quote: “Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.”
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