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Highest Quotes by William Hazlitt
- As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
- The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient 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…
- To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
- 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…
- The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by…
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- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To seek the highest good is to live well. — Saint Augustine
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know. — Richard Bach
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest… — Roseanne Barr
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams
- The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but… — Joseph Addison
- And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing… — Glenn Beck
- Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. — Ezra Taft Benson