The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to… — 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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