While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is considerable, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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