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Before Quotes by William Hazlitt
- It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they…
- 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…
- 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:…
- 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…
- Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
- In art, in taste, in life, in speech, you decide from feeling, and not from reason ... If we were obliged to enter into a…
- Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'…
- If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three…
- We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations…
- Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression…
- Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other…
- Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood