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William Hazlitt has 516 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between…
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But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes,…
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It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that…
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A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery.
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Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without…
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The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that Popery when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the…
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