Best William Hazlitt Proverbs
- It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. Book
- Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. Funny
- Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. Afraid
- No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves. Any
- The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them. Belonging
- A thought must tell at once, or not at all. All
- The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste. Diffusion
- Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing. Everything Know
- Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang… Been
- One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world. Able
- To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth. Courage
- In what we really understand, we reason but little. Inspirational
- The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices,… Any
- Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all… All
- Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else. Ability
- The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they… Deal
- Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. Beginning
- Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. Forget
- A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a… Both
- The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… Abstraction
- Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but… Abstraction
- We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them;… Any
- Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. Affinity
- They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. Business
- The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. Amounts
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