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Other 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…
- To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
- We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any…
- Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.
- Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
- 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…
- The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought…
- The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other…
- 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.
- Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.
- 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 knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.
- One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon…
- 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…
- 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…
- Learning is its own exceeding great reward; and at the period of which we speak, it bore other fruits, not unworthy of it.
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.
- 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…
- Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other…
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
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- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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