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Others Quotes by William Hazlitt
- He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
- By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
- Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them…
- 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…
- 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…
- Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
- The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the…
- 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…
- Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by…
- None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
- We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others
- We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
- Believe all the good you can of everyone. Do not measure others by yourself. If they have advantages which you have not, let your liberality…
- Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.
- We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.
- The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
- An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.
- Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others, who feel that the world has done them justice.
- The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure,…
- Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
- Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him.
- That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who…
- Those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much shall take all that others have left.
- However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen