William Hazlitt Quotes - Page 8

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• People addicted to secrecy are so without knowing why; they are not so for cause, but for secrecy's sake.

  William Hazlitt

  Knowing, People, Sake

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• He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

  William Hazlitt

  Retirement, Heart, World

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1112, Delphi Classics

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• We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

  William Hazlitt

  Sympathy, Determined, Sensibility

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.145

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• Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2108, Delphi Classics

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• Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

  William Hazlitt

  Taste, Knows

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.242

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• Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

  William Hazlitt

  Freedom, Liberty, Riches

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.531

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• Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

  William Hazlitt

  Needs, Monument, Deserve

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.139

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• It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

  William Hazlitt

  Grief, Sadness, Taste

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• Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

  William Hazlitt

  Believe, Animal, Men

  William Hazlitt (1826). “Notes of a journey through France and Italy ...”, p.246

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• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

  William Hazlitt

  Happiness, Beauty, Laughter

  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.161

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• Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

  William Hazlitt

  Prejudice, Able, Way

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.98

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• He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

  William Hazlitt

  Work, Doe, Executing

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

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• I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Mind, Doe

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• Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

  William Hazlitt

  Inspirational, Energy, Resistance

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

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• The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

  William Hazlitt

  Presence Of Mind, Expression, Ideas

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• Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

  William Hazlitt

  Names, Argument, Eloquence

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.219

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• A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Ideas, Dignity

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1106, Delphi Classics

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• With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head, but are led away by mere humour and fancy. If instead of a companion for life, they had to choose a partner in a country-dance or to trifle away an hour with, their mode of calculation would be right. They tie their true-lover's knot with idle, thoughtless haste, while the institutions of society render it indissoluble.

  William Hazlitt

  Country, Mistake, Women

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.111

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• I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Writing, Space

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1272, Delphi Classics

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• No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Greatness, Men

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

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• A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Ignorant, Excellence

  William Hazlitt (2005). “The Fight and Other Writings”, p.464, Penguin UK

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• To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

  William Hazlitt

  Self, And Love, Sincerity

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

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• No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

  William Hazlitt

  Wise, Men, Parent

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.55

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• Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

  William Hazlitt

  Abuse, Indirect, Species

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

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• Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into a little universe in itself. Art may be said to draw aside the veil from nature. To those who are perfectly unskilled in the practice, unimbued with the principles of art, most objects present only a confused mass.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Confused, Sight

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.249, Delphi Classics

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