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True Quotes by William Hazlitt
- To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
- General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not…
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof. The throwing…
- There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right…
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as…
- The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little…
- Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.
- True friendship is self-love at second-hand.
- He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
- Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all…
- In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what…
- With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,…
- Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.
- He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
- The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.
- The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of…
- True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where…
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- I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original. — Aaliyah
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood