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Thought Quotes by William Hazlitt
- No really great man ever thought himself so.
- No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
- Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive…
- The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought…
- A thought must tell at once, or not at all.
- There is a softness and a harmony in the words and in the thought unparalleled. Of all conceits it is surely the most classical. "I…
- In some situations, if you say nothing, you are called dull; if you talk, you are thought impertinent and arrogant. It is hard to know…
- Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable…
- Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.
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