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Us Quotes by William Hazlitt
- By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
- We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
- We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
- We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
- They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at…
- The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to…
- Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
- A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every…
- When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one…
- However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
- It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies…
- We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in…
- There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.
- The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.
- Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
- To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better…
- Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a…
- The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.
- Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression…
- Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other…
- Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong