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Men Quotes by William Hazlitt
- The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they…
- First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions…
- It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
- Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
- No really great man ever thought himself so.
- A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.
- A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
- The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.
- There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right…
- A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as…
- No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as…
- A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.
- The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and…
- A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.
- A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.
- The more a man writes, the more he can write.
- Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man…
- A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
- We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.
- Society is a more level surface than we imagine. Wise men or absolute fools are hard to be met with, as there are few giants…
- A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.
- No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.
- To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
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