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Giving Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
- 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…
- The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to…
- Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of…
- 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…
- Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead…
- The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,…
- There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success…
- 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'…
- An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
- To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
- The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
- If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- 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…
- Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable…
More Giving Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi