William Hazlitt Quotes
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Keep your misfortunes to yourself.
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As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
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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.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.
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Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
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The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
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A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes.
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Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
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The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.
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There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
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Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.
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Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
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Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
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Despair swallows up cowardice.
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.
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Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
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The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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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.