"It is not the errors of others, but……" — William Hazlitt
"It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance. It is ourselves that we cannot forgive."
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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 Cannot Forgive Quotes
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless,…
— Edward Abbey
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
— Publilius Syrus
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The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of…
— Thomas S. Monson
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I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all…
— Amy Carmichael
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God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the…
— John O'Donohue
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Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations…
— Pope Francis
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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and…
— John Steinbeck
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