William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 13

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• Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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  Inspirational, Flow, Action

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• The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

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  Genius, Merit, Assumption

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• Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

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  Ignorance, Mind, Prejudice

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.56

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• The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

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  Thinking, Prejudice, Barbarians

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

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• Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

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  Scholarship, Knows

  William Hazlitt (1821). “Table-talk: Or Original Essays”, p.167

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• In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

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  Thinking, Intellectual, Quality

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.84

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• It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Writing, Able

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

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• To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Greatness, Purpose

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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• One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.

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  Truth, Substance, Immortal

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.16

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• As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who are "in favor with, their stars," and have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Sedentary, nervous, hypochondriacal people, on the contrary, are forced, for want of an appetite for the real and substantial, to look out for a more airy food and speculative comforts.

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  Strong, Stars, Real

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• We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

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  Satisfied, Prove

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.379

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• When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

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  Old Friends, Forget, Forgotten

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1486, Delphi Classics

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• He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

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  Friendship, True Friend, Fear

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.142

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• One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

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  Truth, Regret, World

  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.284

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• Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.

  William Hazlitt

  Anger, Kind, Spleen

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.23

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• 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. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.

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  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

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  Death, Dying, Cures

  Table Talk 'On the Fear of Death'

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• What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Trying

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.244

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• There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I count only the hours that are serene.".

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  Harmony, Hours, Conceit

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.67

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• The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

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  Heart, Habit, Chains

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• That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

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  Education, Teaching, Long

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• The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

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  Imagination, Texture, Delicate

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

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  Wise, World, Way

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.201

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• 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

  Money, People, Secret

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

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• 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

  Pride, Modesty, Settings

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1481, Delphi Classics

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