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Wisdom Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.
- Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a…
- It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,…
- The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
- That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
- To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
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