William Hazlitt quotes - page 4

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. (William Hazlitt)
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.
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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
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No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
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A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
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Words are the only things that last forever.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
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To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. (William Hazlitt)
Gallantry to women the sure road to their favor is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
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Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
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Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
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Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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The temple of fame stands upon the grave the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.
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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.
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There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. (William Hazlitt)
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
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Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
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Well Ive had a happy life.
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