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Our Quotes by William Hazlitt
- We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
- Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
- We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
- Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
- 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…
- As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
- The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
- We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our…
- Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to…
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
- 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…
- Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine…
- The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that…
- A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do…
- The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
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