William Hazlitt Quotes
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Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.
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We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.
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A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
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Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
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There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
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Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
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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.
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The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
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I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.
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We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
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There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.
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A mighty stream of tendency.
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I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
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Principle is a passion for truth.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
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Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
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Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
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Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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The worst old age is that of the mind.