"The essence of poetry is will and passion." — William Hazlitt
"The essence of poetry is will and passion."
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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
— Aristotle
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
— Sai Baba
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
— Irving Babbitt
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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