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Makes Quotes by William Hazlitt
- The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism…
- Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
- 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…
- The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an…
- A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove…
- 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…
- There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
- It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
- Reflection makes men cowards.
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