Without life there can be no action — no objects of pursuit — no restless desires — no tormenting passions. Hence it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We dread life's termination as the close, not of enjoyment, but of hope. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches… — 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
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
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
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
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. — William Hazlitt Copy Share
The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share
