"The mind of man is like a clock……" — William Hazlitt
"The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up."
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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 Always Running Quotes
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell…
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In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a…
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A strong theme is always running through a well-told story,
— Andrew Stanton
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Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared.
— Ram Dass
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Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
— Andy Gibb
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
— Natalie Goldberg
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I take my dog, Fideo, out for a hike in Runyon Canyon three times a week. It's about 45 minutes…
— Ana Ortiz
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If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
— Jimi Hendrix
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The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it,…
— Anais Nin
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Love you always, miss you always... running day and night, leaving the place of sun and moon, of ice and…
— Jessica Day George
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What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and…
— Paul Stanley
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My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six…
— Natalie Morales
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