"Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a……" — William Hazlitt
"Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization."
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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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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or…
— C.S. Lewis
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
— Winston Churchill
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A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot…
— Robert Griffin III
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature:…
— John Calvin
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the…
— Tom Robbins
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I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking…
— Paul Pierce
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Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.
— Unknown Author
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For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there.
— Sharon Osbourne
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
— Samuel Beckett
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The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor…
— William McFee
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