William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 4

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• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Consciousness

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Teacher, Money

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.298

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• Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Personality, Enough

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.82

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• Envy is littleness of soul.

  William Hazlitt

  Envy, Soul

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• If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

  William Hazlitt

  World, Fine, Speculation

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.108

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• Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Honesty, Earnest, Eloquence

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

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• A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Names, Devil

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters”, p.278

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• A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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• We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

  William Hazlitt

  Money, Cost, Wealth

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Long Ago, World, May

  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.151

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• The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

  William Hazlitt

  Respect, Men, Way

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.143

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• You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.

  William Hazlitt

  Tired, Boredom, Painting

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• The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

  William Hazlitt

  Journey, Thinking, Perfect

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

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• We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.

  William Hazlitt

  Attachment, Long, Age

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.7

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• Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

  William Hazlitt

  People, Quality, Common

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.136

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• Love may turn to indifference with possession.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, May, Indifference

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.495

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• Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Sarcasm, Gains

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.31

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• I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

  William Hazlitt

  Knaves, Fool, Wells

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

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• Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Greatness, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Ideas, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1905, Delphi Classics

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• The more a man writes, the more he can write.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Men

  William Hazlitt (1870). “Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth, and Characters of Shakespear's Plays”, p.59

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• When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Hands

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• If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Years

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.1

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• It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

  William Hazlitt

  Honest, Politician, Born

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...”, p.282

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• There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

  William Hazlitt

  Flattery, Implicit

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.113

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