"The history of mankind is a romance, a……" — William Hazlitt
"The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil."
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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 job of art is to chase ugliness away.
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
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This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and…
— David Dellinger
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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
— Lyman Beecher
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I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never…
— Diana Nyad
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One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it.
— Sun Tzu
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is…
— Tim Ferriss
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Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a…
— Peter Bondra
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Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over…
— Jimmy Durante
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The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.
— E. W. Howe
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