"Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect……" — William Hazlitt
"Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it"
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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 Indifference Quotes
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
— Edmund Burke
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
— Lord Byron
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
— Albert Camus
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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that…
— Albert Camus
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Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of…
— Bliss Carman
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What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier…
— Watchman Nee
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
— Norman Angell
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We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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