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Very Quotes by William Hazlitt
- The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they…
- Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with…
- A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as…
- If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea…
- Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of…
- When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress…
- A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which was very usually…
- He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
- Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.
- Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon…
- Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are…
- All is without form and void. Someone said of his landscapes that they were pictures of nothing and very like.
- His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,…
- The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
- Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having…
- Without something to hate, we should lose the very spring of thought and action.
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