William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 24

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• To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

  William Hazlitt

  Modesty, Speak, Intimate

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

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• We must be doing something to be happy.

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  Being Happy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

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  Perseverance, Passion, Ambition

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.62

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• There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Fame, Immortal

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1471, Delphi Classics

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• The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

  William Hazlitt

  Grief, Littles, Bears

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1256, Delphi Classics

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• We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

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  Anger, Long, Imagination

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1916, Delphi Classics

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• Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

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  Character, Eye, Air

  William Hazlitt (1872). “Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).”, p.365

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• The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

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  Reflection, Gentleman, Looks

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• There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

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  Thinking, Talking, Proof

  William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”

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• Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

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  Men, Perception, Excellence

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

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  Self Esteem, Thinking, People

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.38

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• Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

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  Animal, Men, Fiction

  William Hazlitt (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works”

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• Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

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  Blow, Roots, Giving

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.488

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• It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

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  Drama, Play, Remarkable

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1501, Delphi Classics

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• Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

  William Hazlitt

  Pride

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2096, Delphi Classics

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• Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

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  Time, Sunny, Hours

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• Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.

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  Mind, Dresses, Body

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.43

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• Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

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  Fashion, Issues, Clothes

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.205

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• The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

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  Anger, Fire, Spirit

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• A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

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  Spring, Office, Anxiety

  William Hazlitt, Herschel Moreland Sikes, William Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey (1979). “The Letters of William Hazlitt”, p.235, Springer

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• We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

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  Sports, Hate, Despise

  William Hazlitt, Herschel Moreland Sikes, William Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey (1979). “The Letters of William Hazlitt”, p.231, Springer

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• Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

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  Destiny, Birth Place, Ties

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.84

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• Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

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  Real, Hypocrisy, Feelings

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.44

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• We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

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  Stories, May, Willing

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• It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

  William Hazlitt

  Principles, Inference, Egotism

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1492, Delphi Classics

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