William Hazlitt Quotes

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good – fortune.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.

Caity Lotz
- Study
- Working
- Singer
The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

Sabine Baring-Gould
- Works
- Known
- Locks
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza
- Mind
- War
- Peace
I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.

Sally Hawkins
- World
- Good
- Work
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Jack Canfield
- Good
- Trying
- Mother
The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

Fanny Crosby
- Love
- Child
- Angel