William Hazlitt quotes - page 11

He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth. (William Hazlitt)
When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country. View quote
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To great evils we submit we resent little provocations. View quote
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A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself. View quote
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. View quote
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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. View quote
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Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice. View quote
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Vice is man's nature virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. View quote
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it. View quote
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From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal. View quote
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. (William Hazlitt)
That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. View quote
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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. View quote
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There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. I count only the hours that are serene. View quote
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If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power. View quote
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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food. View quote
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We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. View quote
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. View quote
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. View quote
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We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom. View quote
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Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. (William Hazlitt)
In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake. View quote
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world. View quote
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If we use no ceremony toward others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect. View quote
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Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. View quote
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