"It is essential to the triumph of reform……" — William Hazlitt
"It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed."
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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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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.
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I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.
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We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,…
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The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
— Andre Balazs
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Women of this planet need some essential resources: wells, seeds and roads. That is primarily all we have ever needed.…
— Roseanne Barr
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The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind…
— John Adams
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The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work…
— Bruce Barton
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be…
— Charles Baudelaire
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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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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us.…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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