William Hazlitt Quotes About Dreads

Quotes about: Dreads

• A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Action

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.133

• Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it is that we fondly cling to it — that we dread its termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope.

  William Hazlitt

  Hope, Expectations, Enjoyment

  "Collected Works of William Hazlitt".

• They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Glasses, Hands

• The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

  William Hazlitt

  Errors, World, Dread

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.160

• When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

  William Hazlitt

  Fall, People, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1484, Delphi Classics

• A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

  William Hazlitt

  Pain, Giving, Bears

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1360, Delphi Classics

• Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

  William Hazlitt

  Running, Stupidity, Competition

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1467, Delphi Classics

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