William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 14

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

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Flow, Action

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

  William Hazlitt

  Heart, Habit, Chains

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• We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Community, Hatred

  'Table Talk' vol. 2 (1822) 'On Criticism'

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• The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Embalming, Corpses

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• Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Rogues, Ifs

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• The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

  William Hazlitt

  Ambition, Incentives

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”

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• Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.

  William Hazlitt

  Antidote, Diffidence, Awkwardness

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• A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

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  Believe, Men, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.222

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• By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages.

  William Hazlitt

  Hurt, Reading, Flames

  William Hazlitt, Herschel Moreland Sikes, William Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey (1979). “The Letters of William Hazlitt”, p.224, Springer

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• Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

  William Hazlitt

  Laughing, Weakness, Comedy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.180, Delphi Classics

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• We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

  William Hazlitt

  Quality, Use, Good Intentions

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.29

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• Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

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  Love, Life, Hands

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1116, Delphi Classics

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• Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.

  William Hazlitt

  Littles, Left

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.411, Delphi Classics

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• Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Poetry, Painting

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Lectures on the English comic writers, and Lectures on the English poets”

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• Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hurt, Stars

  William Hazlitt (1930). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”, Toronto, Dent

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• Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

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  Hope, Lows, Hoping For The Best

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

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  Friendship, Thinking, Connections

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.102

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• When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

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  Passion, Men, Ruling

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1482, Delphi Classics

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• The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.

  William Hazlitt

  Art

  'The Round Table' (1817) 'On Manner'

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• Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

  William Hazlitt

  Nice, Noses, Filth

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...”, p.294

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• Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

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  Friendship, Vanity, Amusement

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.526

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• 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

  Writing, Pedants, Faults

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

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• Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

  William Hazlitt

  Jokes, Sufferers

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Lectures on the English Poets”

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• Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.

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  Men, Self, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.175, Delphi Classics

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• Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

  William Hazlitt

  Hatred, Littles, Indifference

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.177

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