"The discussing the characters and foibles of common……" — William Hazlitt
"The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship."
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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 Cement Quotes
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The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's…
— Bob Beauprez
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Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
— Yasser Arafat
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lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should…
— Paul Farmer
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
— Robert Herrick
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The game got these old handprints on it, but Imma be the one to pour cement on it.
— Drake
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities;…
— James Madison
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The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.
— Jim Leach
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Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Honesty is the foundation of a sound character and the keystone of all other virtues. It is the cement without…
— William Grant Bangerter
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The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common…
— Canvass White
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The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The…
— Canvass White
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