William Hazlitt quotes - page 2

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)
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
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The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.
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Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
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I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. (William Hazlitt)
The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
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It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.
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Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. (William Hazlitt)
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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