To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit -- or a mask. . . . The foregoing maxim shows the difference between truth and sarcasm. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Art is the microscope of the mind, which sharpens the wit as the other does the sight; and converts every object into… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air,… — 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… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them… — 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
“He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out… — 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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