William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 9

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• A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Ideas, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics

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• The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

  William Hazlitt

  Presence Of Mind, Expression, Ideas

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• We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Eye, Doors

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1806, Delphi Classics

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• The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Expression, Pleasure

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

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• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Parent

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.55

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• To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, And Love, Sincerity

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

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• Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

  William Hazlitt

  Abuse, Indirect, Species

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Business, Men, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1097, Delphi Classics

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• Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Confused, Sight

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

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• The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, May, Kind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

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• The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Doe, Proud

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

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• Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

  William Hazlitt

  Children, Character, Envy

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• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Heart, Land

  "The Pope is a Model Politician" by Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2013.

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• We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

  William Hazlitt

  Conceited, Self, Bears

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

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• He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

  William Hazlitt

  Faithful, Principles, Partisanship

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.272

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• We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Travel, Home

  "The Essential Hazlitt".

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• A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Men, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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• A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Men, Reputation

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

  William Hazlitt

  Religious, Men, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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• Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.

  William Hazlitt

  Teacher, Laughter, Opportunity

  William Hazlitt (2004). “On the Pleasure of Hating”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

  William Hazlitt

  Reading, Romance, Facts

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

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• This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

  William Hazlitt

  Eye, Feet, Intuition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1064, Delphi Classics

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• It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

  William Hazlitt

  Triumph, Essentials, Reform

  William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Doe, Done

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Play, Might

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1317, Delphi Classics

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