No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The public is so in awe of its own opinion that it never dares to form any, but catches up the first… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.… — 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
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of… — 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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