William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 4

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• Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Teacher, Attitude

  William Hazlitt (1889). “William Hazlitt, Essayist and Critic: Selections from His Writings with a Memoir, Biographical and Critical”

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• Time,--the most independent of all things.

  William Hazlitt

  Time, Independent, All Things

  William Hazlitt (1852). “Men and manners: sketches and essays”, p.75

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• He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Greatness, Ideas, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1905, Delphi Classics

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• If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Reading, Years

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.1

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• He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Lying, Philosophy

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

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• Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Greatness, People

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

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• It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

  William Hazlitt

  Honest, Politician, Born

  William Hazlitt (1819). “Political essays, with sketches of public characters ...”, p.282

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• The worst old age is that of the mind.

  William Hazlitt

  Time, Mind, Age

  William Hazlitt (1934). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”

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• It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Travel, Stupid

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• It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Blood, Ideas

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• Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

  William Hazlitt

  Poverty, Aspect, Despicable

  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.242

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• The more we do, the more we can do.

  William Hazlitt

  Life Changing, Leisure Activities, Famous Motivational

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1846, Delphi Classics

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• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

  William Hazlitt

  Death, Dying, Consciousness

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Attention, Hearing

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2779, Delphi Classics

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• Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Giving

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.60

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• If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.

  William Hazlitt

  World, Fine, Speculation

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.108

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• Our lives are ruled by impermanence. The challenge is how to create something of enduring value within the context of our impermanent lives. Soka Gakkai
  Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

  William Hazlitt

  Practice, Challenges, Impermanence

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• Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.

  William Hazlitt

  Justice, Done, World

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

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• We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

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  Cooperation, Opinion, Slave

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Political Essays: With Sketches of Public Characters”, p.276

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• We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

  William Hazlitt

  Thinking, Effectiveness, Wells

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.97

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• Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

  William Hazlitt

  Race, Idols, Evil

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.553

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• Dandyism is a species of genius.

  William Hazlitt

  Genius, Dandyism, Species

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• No really great man ever thought himself so.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Opinion, Great Men

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1905, Delphi Classics

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• The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

  William Hazlitt

  Silence, Say Anything, Daring

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

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• He who draws upon his own resources easily comes to an end of his wealth.

  William Hazlitt

  Wealth, Ends, Resources

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics

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