"A man in love prefers his passion to……" — William Hazlitt
"A man in love prefers his passion to every other consideration, and is fonder of his mistress than he is of virtue. Should she prove vicious, she makes vice lovely in his eyes."
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William Hazlitt
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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More Consideration Quotes
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
— Gary Bauer
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
— Ambrose Bierce
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If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by…
— Theodor Adorno
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
— Allan Bloom
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any…
— Danny Boyle
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I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.
— Jo Brand
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In honor of Surgeon General Koop's legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political…
— Richard Carmona
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I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a…
— Grover Cleveland
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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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