Their Pretensions Quotes by William Hazlitt

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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…
• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
• He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
• The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
• There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
• I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
• A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
• Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
• To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
• Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
• The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
• Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

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