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• It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

  William Hazlitt

  Triumph, Essentials, Reform

  William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Vanity, Triumph

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.473

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• Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

  William Hazlitt

  Moving, Men, Intellectual

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• This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Feet, Intuition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1064, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.694, Delphi Classics

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• I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

  William Hazlitt

  Class, Proud, Meanness

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

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• Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Genius, Virtue

  'The Spirit of the Age' (1825) 'Lord Byron'

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• As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.

  William Hazlitt

  Delight, Fables

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• Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Real, Ignorance

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.37

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• There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Moving, Men

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.35

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• Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust. Hatred alone is immortal.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Hate, Hatred

  William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.309

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• Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

  William Hazlitt

  Jealousy, Space, Envy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1466, Delphi Classics

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• Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Hate, Heart

  William Hazlitt (2006). “Liber Amoris: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.65, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Hands, Years

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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• By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Self Hate, Despise

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.21

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• The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinker, Talkers, Fluent

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.95

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• When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

  William Hazlitt

  Competition, Progress, Doe

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• I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Gay, Thinking

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.115

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• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Sleep, Can't Sleep

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1808, Delphi Classics

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• Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

  William Hazlitt

  Government, Law, People

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• Those who object to wit are envious of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Envious, Wit, Objects

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.136

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• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Clothes, Dresses

  1819 Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

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• The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Intensity, Milton

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• We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Dull, Cold

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.222

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• The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

  William Hazlitt

  Beauty, Flames, Links

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.587, Delphi Classics

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