"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy……" — William Hazlitt
"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature."
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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 Craving Quotes
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
— Bill Bryson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to…
— Kelly Clarkson
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
— John Climacus
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work…
— H.G. Wells
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Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows…
— William James
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we…
— Andrew Weil
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I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality…
— Og Mandino
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