William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 17

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• However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced or distrustful eyes of others. They may know better, but their feelings are governed by popular prejudice. Nay, they are more shy of us (when under a cloud) than even strangers; for we involve them in a common disgrace, or compel them to embroil themselves in continual quarrels and disputes in our defense.

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  Eye, Thinking, Clouds

  William Hazlitt (2008). “Liber Amoris and Related Writings”, Carcanet Press

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• No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

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  Art, Science, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.261, Delphi Classics

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• To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.

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  Disappointment, Proud, Lasts

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

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• Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.

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  Weakness, Degrees, Liable

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

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• Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

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  Vanity, Admiration, Driven

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

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• Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.

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  Pride, Abstract, Circumstances

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.979, Delphi Classics

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• That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who are opposed to them. The friends of liberty trust to the professions of others because they are themselves sincere, and endeavour to secure the public good with the least possible hurt to its enemies, who have no regard to anything but their own unprincipled ends, and stick at nothing to accomplish them.

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  Hurt, Men, Humanity

  William Hazlitt (2016). “Characters of Shakespeare's Plays”, p.48, William Hazlitt

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• Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.

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  Rewards, Fruit, Speak

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.198

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• There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.

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  Pain, Men, Justice

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• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

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  Wise, Men, Idiot

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.492

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• A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

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  Fashion, Real, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.

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  Moon, Views, Moonlight

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• A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

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  Life, Character, Men

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters”, p.289

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• Whatever interests is interesting.

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  Interesting, Interest

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.225

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• The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

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  Thinking, Quality, Complaining

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1472, Delphi Classics

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• Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

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  Temper, Features

  "The Complete Works of William Hazlitt".

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• Dandyism is a variety of genius.

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  Genius, Dandyism, Variety

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• To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

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  Birthday, Time, Age

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• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

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  Idols, May, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

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  Wise, Self, Evident

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• No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

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  Perfection, Stealth, Approach

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.255

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• A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

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  Advantage, Should, Graves

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137

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• To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

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  Regret, Ideas, Lasts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

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  Silly, Men, Two

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• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

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  Positive, Running, Men

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.37

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