William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 13

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• A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Men, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1105, Delphi Classics

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• Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants or dwarfs. The heaviest charge we can bring against the general texture of society is that it is commonplace. Our fancied superiority to others is in some one thing which we think most of because we excel in it, or have paid most attention to it; whilst we overlook their superiority to us in something else which they set equal and exclusive store by.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• ...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Dignity, Shrinks

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1107, Delphi Classics

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• We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Community, Hatred

  'Table Talk' vol. 2 (1822) 'On Criticism'

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• What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Light, Succeed, Looks

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.23

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• I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Ignorance, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2452, Delphi Classics

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• Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

  William Hazlitt

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

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• The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Embalming, Corpses

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• Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

  William Hazlitt

  Giving, Envy, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1518, Delphi Classics

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• One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

  William Hazlitt

  Failure, Winning, Games

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk Or Original Essays. - London, Colburn 1822”, p.149

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• A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Men, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.222

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• The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

  William Hazlitt

  Dignity, Fortune, Reverse

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “The life of Napoleon Buonaparte”

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• The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Prejudice, Barbarians

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.119

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• Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

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  Wise, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.307, Delphi Classics

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• The incentive to ambition is the love of power.

  William Hazlitt

  Ambition, Incentives

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”

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• The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.

  William Hazlitt

  Stars, Reality, Sky

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• The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

  William Hazlitt

  Imagination, Texture, Delicate

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.487

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• A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, World, Great Men

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

  William Hazlitt

  Religious, Men, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.232, Delphi Classics

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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.".

  William Hazlitt

  Harmony, Hours, Conceit

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.67

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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.

  William Hazlitt

  Truth, Regret, World

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.284

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• Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

  William Hazlitt

  Laughing, Weakness, Comedy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.180, Delphi Classics

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• No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Dignity

  Table Talk "The Indian Jugglers" (1822)

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• We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

  William Hazlitt

  Tired, Ridicule, Grows

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1921, Delphi Classics

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• The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Merit, Assumption

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