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Over Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives to naked objects.
- I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of…
- Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
- Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead…
- When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from…
- There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success…
- Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours'…
- Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the…
- There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
- 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…
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- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
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