William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 11

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• 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.

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  Breathing, Cities, Space

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.524

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• Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

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  Character, Personality, Enough

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.82

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Advice, Sage

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

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• The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.

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  Relief, Sometimes, Natural

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1336, Delphi Classics

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• None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

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  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.546

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• Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

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  Morning, Health, Giving

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1030, Delphi Classics

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• We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

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  Men, Names, Common

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.345, Delphi Classics

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• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

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  Happiness, Action, Indolence

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

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  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.46

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• I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

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  Hate, Struggle, Sea

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

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• Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

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  Tests, Poverty, Civility

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.132

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• An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

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  Passion, Coquette, Coquetry

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• To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

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  Mean, Thinking, Justice

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.351

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• The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.

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  Women, Break Through, Modesty

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.475

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• There is a quiet repose and steadiness about the happiness of age, if the life has been well spent. Its feebleness is not painful. The nervous system has lost its acuteness. But, in mature years we feel that a burn, a scald, a cut, is more tolerable than it was in the sensitive period of youth.

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  Cutting, Years, Age

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• Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

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  Common Sense, Substitutes, Cases

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1091, Delphi Classics

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• Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.

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  Fall, Pride, Folks

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• The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.

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  Sports, Strong, Justice

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• Despair swallows up cowardice.

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  Despair, Cowardice

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• If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

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  Giving, Acting, Actors

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• The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

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  Common Sense, Prejudice, Common

  William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.1

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• Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.

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  Success, Business, Self Improvement

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• People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Genius, Vocation

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• Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

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  Running, Fashion, Gentility

  William Hazlitt (1856). “Criticisms on Art”, p.92

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• Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

  William Hazlitt

  Views, Disrespect, Prove

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.119

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