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Little Quotes by William Hazlitt
- A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
- Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with…
- The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a…
- The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little…
- If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
- We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
- In what we really understand, we reason but little.
- Pride erects a little kingdom of its own, and acts as sovereign in it.
- Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.
- 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…
- We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in…
- The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands…
- Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.
- The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
- There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better…
- 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…
- To great evils we submit; yet we resent little provocations.
- The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
- Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is inmortal.
- To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations
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