"A proud man is satisfied with his own……" — William Hazlitt
"A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it."
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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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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was…
— Chinua Achebe
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There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence…
— Khalil Gibran
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The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and…
— Lewis Mumford
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The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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With its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies that are destructive of land or air or water,…
— Wendell Berry
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Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
— George Farquhar
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The Holy Ghost converts [us] from carnality to spirituality. It cleanses, heals, and purifies the soul. . . . .…
— Marion G. Romney
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A man in twenty-four hours converts as much as seven ounces of carbon into carbonic acid; a milch cow will…
— Michael Faraday
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The catalyst that converts any physical location - any environment if you will - into a place, is the process…
— Alan Gussow
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Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action…
— Abdul Kalam
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Quorum and group leaders should provide the leading voice and laboring oar in every ward and branch council regarding retention…
— D. Todd Christofferson
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
— William Penn
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