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Good Quotes by William Hazlitt
- We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.
- A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
- Good temper is an estate for life.
- Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality…
- 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…
- 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…
- Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of…
- Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a…
- That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who…
- Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such…
- You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with…
- It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies…
- A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.
- Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
- Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
- If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
- Pure good soon grows insipid, wants variety and spirit. Pain is a bittersweet, which never surfeits. Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or…
- I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own…
- There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.
- There are persons who cannot make friends. Who are they? Those who cannot be friends. It is not the want of understanding or good nature,…
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