William Hazlitt quotes - page 3

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. (William Hazlitt)
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
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The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
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To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority - that of time.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. (William Hazlitt)
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
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I am always afraid of a fool one cannot be sure he is not a knave.
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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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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.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. (William Hazlitt)
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
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