"The last pleasure in life is the sense……" — William Hazlitt
"The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty."
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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 Discharging Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more…
— William Shakespeare
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...pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due...Paying tithing is not a…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our…
— James Madison
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A salesman, like the storage battery in your car, is constantly discharging energy. Unless he is recharged at frequent intervals…
— Robert Henry Grant
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No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other…
— Frederick Douglass
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The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the…
— William Harvey
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When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there…
— Deepak Chopra
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack…
— Wendell Berry
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The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English…
— H. L. Mencken
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