Best William Hazlitt Wisdom
- We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear:… Age
- We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is… All
- Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants… Absolute
- He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan. Faithful
- We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. Inspirational
- Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain. Inspirational
- The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought… Confession
- Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. Except
- The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their… Always Sacrifice
- If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago. Ago
- We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves. Inspirational
- Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of… All
- A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every… Action
- The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others. Book
- A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way. Beaten
- A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture. Any
- Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon… All
- We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on… Cannot Catch
- The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty. Discharging
- The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other… Difference
- It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. Able
- Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason. Easy
- What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to… Accustomed
- The garb of religion is the best cloak for power. Best
- Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. Fond
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