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Human Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work…
- I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in…
- Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive…
- 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…
- Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite…
- There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him…
- If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- 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