William Hazlitt Quotes
We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
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Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
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Heaven is a state of mind, not a location, since Spirit is everywhere and in everything.
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'I wish I had never been born,' she said. 'What are we born for?' 'For infinite happiness,' said the Spirit. 'You can step out into it at any moment...'
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If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant.
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I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world.
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If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,” he said crossly, “say so at once and have done!
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The reason for anger is always fear.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.
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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
