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Been Quotes by William Hazlitt
- To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions…
- That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom,…
- Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
- People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself…
- When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one…
- The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in…
- It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,…
- Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
- Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
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- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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