William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 25

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• Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

  William Hazlitt

  Hope, Expectations, Enjoyment

  "Collected Works of William Hazlitt".

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• The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Speak, Virtue, Ill

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Cant and Hypocrisy'

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• The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride, Justice, Community

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

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• It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition. This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible.

  William Hazlitt

  Exercise, Opportunity, Thinking

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

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• Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Media, Years

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

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• The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Power, Tyrants

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters”, p.163

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• There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Book, Library

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• Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Tyrants, Humanity

  William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”, p.181

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• I am then never less alone than when alone

  William Hazlitt

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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• Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Reason

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1504, Delphi Classics

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hypocrite, Acting

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.218

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• A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Knavery, Knaves

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1498, Delphi Classics

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• In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know what to do in this case. The question seems to be, whether your vanity or your prudence predominates.

  William Hazlitt

  Vanity, Arrogant, Dull

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.135

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