I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is… — 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
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done… — 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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