William Hazlitt Quotes
The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
Quotes to Explore
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Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
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My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.
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I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.
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I don't believe in regret.
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He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I regret that I have not written more, shouted louder, and acted out my beliefs.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
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I wouldn't call Loopt a failure. It didn't turn out like I wanted, for sure, but it was fun, I learned a lot, and I made enough money to start investing, which led me to my current job. I don't regret it at all.
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Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.
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Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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My life was really focused on futbol, but as those things happen in life, my passion for music won over my passion for futbol. But I love what I do. I don't regret it.
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This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
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Your constant utilization of thought to give continuity to your separate self is you. There is nothing there inside you other than that.
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I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.
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Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
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The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
