"Our notions with respect to the importance of……" — William Hazlitt
"Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions."
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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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More Attachment Quotes
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If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
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Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
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He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is…
— Chanakya
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All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to…
— Tadao Ando
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When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's…
— Dan Millman
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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of…
— Linda Hogan
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The perfection of joyful determination is defined as taking delight or feeling joy in doing something positive or virtuous. If…
— Unknown Author
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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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