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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• 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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• 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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• There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Decision, Firmness

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Body, Exposure

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Disagreeable People'

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• Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.

  William Hazlitt

  Sports, Art, Anchors

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.250

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• They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

  William Hazlitt

  Gratitude, Business, Corporations

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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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• 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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• 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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