William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 19

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• Well I've had a happy life.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Happy Life, Last Words

  Last words, in W. C. Hazlitt 'Memoirs of William Hazlitt' (1867)

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• Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

  William Hazlitt

  Religious, Truth, Political

  William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.

  William Hazlitt

  Retirement, Passion, Heart

  William Hazlitt (1918). “Twenty-two Essays of William Hazlitt”

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• The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

  William Hazlitt

  Imagination, Ordinary, Want

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.117

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• The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Mind

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.46

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• The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

  William Hazlitt

  Lasts, Life Is, Pleasure

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2098, Delphi Classics

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• Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are 'the best of kings'. It is their power, their splendour, it is the apprehension of the personal consequences of their favour or their hatred that dazzles the imagination and suspends the judgement of their favourites or their vassals; but death cancels the bond of allegiance and of interest; and seen AS THEY WERE, their power and their pretensions look monstrous and ridiculous.

  William Hazlitt

  Kings, Character, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Characters of Shakespeare's Plays”, p.158

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• An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

  William Hazlitt

  Doe, Public Speaking, Orators

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

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• 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

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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.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Fool

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1470, Delphi Classics

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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.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Language, Scholar

  William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “Miscellaneous writings”

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• A man who does not endeavour to seem more than he is will generally be thought nothing of. We habitually make such large deductions for pretence and imposture that no real merit will stand against them. It is necessary to set off our good qualities with a certain air of plausibility and self-importance, as some attention to fashion is necessary.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Real, Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1485, Delphi Classics

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• A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.

  William Hazlitt

  Silence, Looks, Benefits

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137

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• To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

  William Hazlitt

  Ideas, Way, Made

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

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• I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Faults

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

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• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

  William Hazlitt

  Positive, Running, Men

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.37

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• To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.

  William Hazlitt

  Regret, Ideas, Lasts

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1353, Delphi Classics

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• A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

  William Hazlitt

  Advantage, Should, Graves

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.137

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• No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Perfection, Stealth, Approach

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.255

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• That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Self, Evident

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• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  William Hazlitt

  Idols, May, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Reflection, Men

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• No young man ever thinks he shall die.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Thinking, Young

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.127

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• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Idiot

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.492

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• Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

  William Hazlitt

  Our Words, Belief, Action

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.27

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